in unstable ebuild of apache-2.2.0, simple file-based authentication is not working: <Directory "/var/www/www/htdocs/authfile"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Access" AuthUserFile "/var/www/users" AuthGroupFile "/var/www/groups" Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Require valid-user Satisfy any </Directory> [Wed Feb 22 16:05:58 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] access to /authfile/ failed, reason: require directives present and no Authoritative handler. This simple configuration example works in apache from built from source using default configuration (./configure && make && make install).
Please don't unnecessarily restrict bugs.
I am unable to reproduce this. Go to the page http://localhost/server-info on your server and paste the output from the Loaded Modules section at the top. It should look similar to this: Loaded Modules: sapi_apache2.c, mod_macro.c, mod_auth_sys_group.c, mod_auth_pam.c, mod_suexec.c, mod_ssl.c, mod_vhost_alias.c, mod_usertrack.c, mod_userdir.c, mod_unique_id.c, mod_status.c, mod_speling.c, mod_setenvif.c, mod_rewrite.c, mod_negotiation.c, mod_mime_magic.c, mod_mime.c, mod_mem_cache.c, mod_logio.c, mod_log_config.c, mod_info.c, mod_include.c, mod_imagemap.c, mod_ident.c, mod_headers.c, mod_filter.c, mod_file_cache.c, mod_ext_filter.c, mod_expires.c, mod_env.c, mod_disk_cache.c, mod_dir.c, mod_deflate.c, mod_dbd.c, mod_dav_lock.c, mod_dav_fs.c, mod_dav.c, mod_cgid.c, mod_cgi.c, mod_cache.c, mod_autoindex.c, mod_authz_user.c, mod_authz_owner.c, mod_authz_host.c, mod_authz_groupfile.c, mod_authz_default.c, mod_authz_dbm.c, mod_authn_file.c, mod_authn_default.c, mod_authn_dbm.c, mod_authn_dbd.c, mod_authn_anon.c, mod_auth_digest.c, mod_auth_basic.c, mod_alias.c, mod_actions.c, mod_so.c, http_core.c, prefork.c, core.c
unable to reproduce.