[mythtv-users] MythWeb 0.20 fails to start: Couldn't check user. No user file?

Michael Lynch lynchmv at gmail.com
Fri Sep 15 12:58:24 UTC 2006


On 9/15/06, Adam Egger <mythtv2006 at bdam.de> wrote:
> I'm just trying to update my MythWeb on Ubuntu Dapper. Everything was
> fine with 0.19, with 0.20 I encounter an Internal Server Error when I
> activate Digest in .htaccess.
>
> The apache2 error log file displays:
>
> [Fri Sep 15 12:11:26 2006] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
> [Fri Sep 15 12:11:26 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for
> digest authentication ...
> [Fri Sep 15 12:11:26 2006] [notice] Digest: done
> [Fri Sep 15 12:11:26 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu)
> PHP/4.4.2-1build1 configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Fri Sep 15 12:11:38 2006] [crit] [client 192.168.1.2] configuration
> error:  couldn't check user.  No user file?: /mythweb/, referer:
> http://xxxxxx.ath.cx/
>

This one got me at first too.  Reading the .htaccess file it says that
if your apache is less than <whatever version it references> use
AuthDigestFile instead of AuthUserFile.  Change that line and restart
apache, you should be good to go.


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