Comments on: Turning on authentication in lighttpd

By: Sinobato

Sinobato — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:03:28 +0000

Hi, just want to ask a dumb question:

During the generation of a password, there is a mention of some alpha-numeric data:

98616824633db75cb8d3a63d5c0658cb

Will the be the password for user clutch if he accesses the protected web site afterwards?

By: Johnny

Johnny — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:46:30 +0000

Ah ha! thanks ShadowAndy. Maaan… slap me with a cold fish

By: shadowandy

shadowandy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:20:06 +0000

Johnny,

Have you enabled the lighttpd module that takes care of authentication stuffs (mod_auth)?

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:58:58 +0000

hi guys,
this is a stupid question, I’m kinda new to this so what can you do?

Just wondering, is this authentication meant for the the LIGHTTPD webserver i.e. so you can prompt for login details when users try to access a certain link on the HTTP server?

I tried this & created a folder in /mnt/HD_a2/www/clutch and put a HTML file in there… after restarting the LIGHTTPD and trying to access that file, no prompts came up for login details… any ideas?

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:19:52 +0000

Got this working with DNS-323 and fun-plug v0.4 but couldn’t get ssl working. Any suggestions? I finally figured out that the compiled version (using lighttpd -v) didn’t show the “SSL” part of the version. Does anyone have a compiled version of lighttpd with ssl features?

By: shadowandy

shadowandy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:55:54 +0000

dotcom,

Nope. Just a

“/folder/” =>
(
“method” => “digest”,
“realm” => “Password Protected Area”,
“require” => “user=clutch”
)

within the auth.require will do.

By: dotcom

dotcom — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:09:19 +0000

Hi
thanx for this guide got it working
if i want to add another folder to protect ill just add another auth.require frase or?

By: shadowandy

shadowandy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:27:44 +0000

indexmonkey,

Thanks for pointing it out! Yeap! I am running stuffs off my usb

By: indexmonkey

indexmonkey — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:03:08 +0000

Hi shadowandy,
This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks very much.
one small thing I noticed, in the “Generating the username and password” section
you had:-
/ # sh /mnt/usb_1/htdigest.sh ‘clutch’ …
it should be:-
/ # sh /mnt/HD_a2/htdigest.sh ‘clutch’ …
Guess you have modded the USB to take memory stick too!
It works perfect for me. I’m glad you have a dns-323 too.
Cheers.