apache file authorisation fails

[quart]

Hi,

I am trying to protect a single file in a cgi-bin directory from the vqadmin package. I have a clean installation and nothing fancy yet.
This is the relevant part of /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/default_vhost.include

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/"

[elgato319]

I would do it like this:

add an .htaccess to the cgi-bin dir

[quart]

Yes that did the trick. But why wouldn't it work from the apache configuration? I tried to put the <files></files> between the <directory> tags, and above the directory tags, all with no result. I would expect it should work. Or is this new behaviour in Apache 2.2?
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo VP, 1989

[quart]

I found it. Authorisation has to be placed inside directory tags, not the file tags, like this:

<Directory "/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride All
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Options Indexes
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /var/www/localhost/vqadmin.passwd
AuthName "vqadmin"
</Directory>
<Files vqadmin>
Require valid-user
</Files>

Thanks for the help!
_________________
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo VP, 1989

[elgato319]

I don't think this is a new feature from apache2. Glad you could get it working

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/core.html#files

[quart]