Hi, I host my website (light traffic) on Apache 2.0.47 running in
Windows XP Home. Everything seems to be working okay except for a problem
with authentication. I recently wanted to have an AOL dial-up user (AOL 9)
look at a document on a password protected section of my site. I sent a AIM
message to her giving her the direct address to the file. She then says her
connection died. I can not fathom why basic authentication would bring down
her connection so I checked my error log. The following appeared:
"[Thu Sep 04 21:55:44 2003] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] File does not
exist: C:/Web Server/htdocs/_vti_inf.html
[Thu Sep 04 21:55:45 2003] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xx.xx] File does not
exist: C:/Web Server/htdocs/_vti_bin
I confirmed this was her because this appeared after the crash and using
the IP lookup tool on the DSLreports website that this was an AOL user. So,
now I can't figure out what these files are. A Google search pulled up
references to Microsoft Frontpage, however I don't use Frontpage and all
editing was done in OpenOffice.org Writer and Notepad. Frontpage or
Microsoft Office isn't even installed.
So I would like to know what those files are, why they'd be requested
and if the AOL dropped connection was most likely random or related to this
problem. I have included the directory section of my httpd.conf.
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory "/web server/htdocs/passworded">
AuthUserFile "C:/Passwords/.htpassword"
AuthName "Passworded Stuff"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
</Directory>
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
If you are curious my web address is
http://andrewwatiker.alturl.com or
http://andrewwatiker.homeip.net:81
--
Andrew Watiker
"All We Are Saying is Give Peace a Chance"
- John Lennon
Peace & Love.
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