Posted by NC on 11/06/07 04:10

On Nov 5, 3:33 pm, yawnmoth <terra1...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I was trying to test the following PHP script and am having
> some difficulty:
>
> if (empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']) ||
> empty($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']))
....
> When I try it on Abyss web server what happens is that I enter
> "test" as my username / password and then it echoes them back
> to me. On Apache, it just keeps prompting me for the password.
> It's as though PHP_AUTH_* is never being set. Any ideas as to
> why this is and what I'd need to do to fix it?

Most likely, your PHP is configured as CGI/FastCGI. HTTP
authentication, on the other hand, is only supported if PHP is
configured as an Apache module. Documentation says it quite clearly:

The HTTP Authentication hooks in PHP are only available when
it is running as an Apache module and is hence not available
in the CGI version.

http://www.php.net/features.http-auth

Another possibility is that your Apache installation does not have an
authorization module.

Cheers,
NC

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