[cobalt-users] .htaccess and strange authorization failed

[Martino Piccinato <m.piccinato@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

a new enigma from my Cobalt RAQ2 ;)
Well, it's true, I was messing a bit trying to install PHP and a new 
apache on the RAQ2 but what happen now seems
to be unrelated... (I'm running a RAQ2 and the original Cobalt 1.3.3 
apache as "/usr/sbinahttpd" while with a self compiled "/usr/sbin/httpd" 
Apache 1.3.14)
I can actually log in as the administrator of the RAQ, see and manage 
all the othere users and sites and do effective changes, but none of the 
otther sites
administrator seem to be able to log in his administrator site, when 
they give their username and password they got back a nice 
"Authorization Failed".
This is just for web-site administering because they can still do ftp 
and acutally exists as users (mail /etc/passwd, /etc/shadows etc. etc.).

Well, ok it seemed to me that the problem must reside in the 
authentication in /usr/admserver/html/.cobalt/siteManage/<site> (where 
you are redirected by the ahttpd when you go the a site admin interface) 
Ok, there you find for each site a reasonable .htaccess,
reasonable apart from the fact that it does not indicate the 
AuthUserFile nor AuthGroupFile options, I'm not a .htaccess expert but 
shouldn't be that indicated if you then write "require group admin 
site11" i.e.?

I've also noted a /etc/htgroup (but not /etc/htpasswd) just with the 
admin group... but nothing seems to refer to it, not even in the working 
main "admin site"...

...so were am I wrong...? why can't my sub-admin http authenticate? can 
some of you please look at some not broken RAQ2 (3?) and tell me if 
anything is different? (even though I don't think I touched anything at 
all in that areas...)

Sorry to be so long but I'm a bit worried for my clients... (and for me 
;-) ).

Thanks to anybody who sill be of any help

Greetings

Martino