[lug] .htaccess weirdness

[Scott A. Herod]

Check to see whether you have nested .htaccess directories.

> Greg Horne wrote:
> 
> Hey all!  I used the wrong email address and didn't want to wait for a
> moderator, so I'm posting again.  Sorry.
> 
> I was contacted today and somebody was trying to log into a website
> protected by an .htaccess file.  Here is the weird thing:
> 
> Example #1
> 
> If you go to http://website/admin
> 
> It asks for password, I enter it and I am denied
> 
> It asks for password again, I enter it and it lets me in.
> 
> BUT
> 
> Example #2
> 
> If you go to http://website/admin/
> 
> It asks for password, I enter it and it lets me in.
> 
> BTW, you don't have to try example #1 for #2 to work.  Does anybody
> have an idea as to what could be causing this?
> 
> I have looked in my httpd.conf and found nothing that would help, is
> this maybe a kernel problem?
> 
> RedHat 7.0
> 
> Kernel 2.2.16-22
> 
> Apache 1.3.19
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Greg