Quick HTTPD Error Question

[Lonni J Friedman]

Can you post your httpd.conf (minus anything that is commented out)?

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Brad De Vries wrote:

> Hey all, I have what I hope is a simple little httpd error.  I've
> taken the default apache install (2.0.40) for Red Hat 9 and started up
> the daemon(s).  I then placed a "pictures" sub-directory under the
> /var/www/html directory, did a chown apache:apache on it, and placed
> an index.html file in there.  I was hoping that I would simply be able
> to view it from Firefox on the same box with the following URL:
>   http://10.0.2.202/pictures/index.html
>
> Instead I get a "Server error 500" with the message "The server
> encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
> Either the server is overloaded or there was an error in a CGI
> script."  Well since I'm on the only one accessing it and there is no
> CGI scripts involved, at least none that I know of, what could be
> causing this error?
>
> Here are the two httpd logs that get updated when I access that URL:
>
> ==> access_log <==
> 10.0.2.202 - - [22/Aug/2005:16:34:47 -0400] "GET /pictures/index.html
> HTTP/1.1" 500 1071 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
> rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6"
> 10.0.2.202 - - [22/Aug/2005:16:34:48 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico
> HTTP/1.1" 404 1048 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
> rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6"
>
> ==> error_log <==
> [Mon Aug 22 16:34:47 2005] [crit] [client 10.0.2.202] configuration
> error:  couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!:
> /pictures/index.html
> [Mon Aug 22 16:34:48 2005] [error] [client 10.0.2.202] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico
>
>
> I'm sensing it has something to do with that "AuthType not set!"
> message but I'm unclear as to where to go to fix it.  I've looked at:
>   http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/developer/request.html
> but I didn't understand what has to change.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Brad.
>
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