Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:00:37 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: Chris Roos <chris@seagul.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache 1.3 FreeBsd Port missing mod_auth_digest Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20050714044809.12534280@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <42D650D1.4010609@seagul.co.uk> References: <42D627B0.2080101@seagul.co.uk> <6.1.0.6.2.20050714033219.11ed2bf0@cobalt.antimatter.net> <42D650D1.4010609@seagul.co.uk>
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At 04:47 AM 7/14/2005, Chris Roos wrote: >Glenn Dawson wrote: >>At 01:52 AM 7/14/2005, Chris Roos wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I'm not entirely convinced this is the right place for this question as >>>it may be an Apache issue rather than FreeBsd/Port issue. Either way, I >>>thought I'd start here first. >>> >>>I've been running Apache 1.3 from the ports on FreeBsd 5.3R for quite a >>>while. I've even been running it with mod_digest to provide some basic >>>password protection. Unfortunately mod_digest doesn't work with IE. >>>This hasn't really been a problem until now. Now that it is an issue >>>I've been looking to enable mod_auth_digest in place of mod_digest as >>>this should work with IE too. The problem is that I cannot find any >>>reference of it in my install or in any of the patches applied to the >>>Apache 1.3 port; as far as I can tell mod_auth_digest is nowhere to be >>>found on my install. I've also been trying to google for similar >>>reports of this problem but currently to no avail. >>> >>>Does anyone have any information on this? It could well be the case >>>that I'm missing something obvious that I just don't know about so any >>>pointers to other resources I might check would also be appreciated. >> >>According to this: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth_digest.html >>if you have 1.3.8 or later the files required are included with the rest >>of apache. They also list it as experimental. >>Building it into apache should be as easy as adding the correct options >>to CONFIGURE_ARGS >>-Glenn >Ok. I had already seen the apache page detailing the fact that it should >already be available in the Apache distribution since 1.3.8, which is why >I was confused when I couldn't find it. The problem I have now is how >would I find out what options are available to be added to >CONFIGURE_ARGS? Is this something I would find somewhere in the ports >info or in the Apache docs? You can do make extract in the dir for the port. Then you can go to the work dir, find configure and do ./configure --help That will give you a list of available options. -Glenn >Thanks for your help, > >Chris > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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