Debian Etch and Apache2 at Kyle Schneider

Debian Etch and Apache2

Published November 8th, 2006 in Geek, Linux

Anyone running Debian Etch and Apache2 may have noticed that a recent update (to version 2.2.3-3) has rendered AuthDigest unusuable. Here’s what you need to do to get it working:

Change any instances of AuthDigestFile to AuthUserFile (in apache2.conf, your VirtualHost definitions, etc.)

The recent update unlinked authz_user.load from the enabled modules. You’ll need to relink it.
ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/authz_user.load /etc/apache2/mods-available/authz_user.load

That should fix the problem for you. There are a couple of bug reports that have been filed, so hopefully it gets fixed soon.

4 Responses to “Debian Etch and Apache2”

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1 Jon Nov 8th, 2006 at 5:16 pm

You mean SID or Etch, not Sarge. Or you mean Apache 2.0.54-5sarge1, which hasn’t been updated since August 31.
2 Kyle Nov 8th, 2006 at 5:34 pm

My bad, you’re right. This is actually a problem with Etch.
3 Adam Israel Nov 9th, 2006 at 9:34 am

(sudo) a2enmod authz_user

That’s the “proper” way to do it, but it’s just a wrapper to the manual symlink you did. Thanks for the tip!
4 Brian Apr 29th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Kyle,

I had a problem getting AuthDigest to work correctly, apache version 2.2.3.

Thank you for the idea of replacing AuthDigestFile with AuthUserFile, because it immediately corrected the “Invalid command ‘AuthDigestFile’”.

Hopefully this will help others when googling Invalid command ‘AuthDigestFile’.

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