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Hi,

I am struggling slightly to enable database authentication with wamp5.

I've used dbmmanage.pl, mod_auth_dbm and AuthDBMUserFile (in .htaccess) happily with EasyPHP (which had apache 1.3) . But with Apache 2 and wampserver I cannot find the information to get this working - I was hoping to be able to use the same method and just transfer the password files over.

In httpd.conf I have enabled 'LoadModule auth_dbm_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so', but there didn't seem to be any associated 'AddModule mod_auth_dbm.c' to enable (which is what had to do for Apache 1.3) - in fact with apache2 there didn't seem to be any 'ClearModuleList' at all.

Any help appreciated. Thank you very much.

wamp does not come with perl installed so you cannot run .pl or .cgi files. you need to install the wamp active perl add-on. after you install the add-on you will need to make some changes to your httpd.conf file to get perl to work.

open your httpd.conf file and find this section:

DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"

#
# Each directory to which Apache has access can be configured with respect
# to which services and features are allowed and/or disabled in that
# directory (and its subdirectories).
#
# First, we configure the "default" to be a very restrictive set of
# features.
#
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>

Change the Options FollowSymLinks line to this:
Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ c:/wamp/cgi-bin/

now you need to find this line:
#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

remove the # in front of that line to enable it and then add .pl to it to allow both .cgi and .pl files like this:
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi[ .pl/i]

save the file and restart apache for you new settings to take effect.

now you need to create a file called cgi-bin in your c:\wamp folder. this is where you will out your cgi and pl files.

CyberSpatium
WAMP English Forum Admin

Thank you for your reply.

Perl is not the problem, I had that bit working already - it was only to run dbmmanage.pl from the command line (not through the browser) - I don't need perl cgi.

The bit I was having problems with was configuring Apache2 to use mod_auth_dbm so that I can use an indexed (fast) password file for authentication, which I have been using fine with Apache 1.3.

The settings I had previously with Apache 1.3 which worked was this:

In httpd.conf:
LoadModule dbm_auth_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so

and further on....

AddModule mod_auth_dbm.c

Then in my www folder I had an access.conf file that had:

AllowOverride AuthConfig

And a .htaccess file in www containing:

.htaccess:
AuthName "XYZ"
AuthType Basic
AuthDBMUserFile c:/store/passwords.dat
require valid-user
IndexIgnore *

But I do not know how to setup httpd.conf for Apache 2.0 to do the same thing!

Thanks v. much.
Charles.

just enable LoadModule auth_dbm_module modules/mod_auth_dbm.so in httpd.conf fileby removing the # in front, restart apache.

CyberSpatium
WAMP English Forum Admin