Virtual Website Problems

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Erasmus, P, Mnr <perasmus at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi There,
>  
> I am running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, as a virtual apache server. I have about 
> 10 websites running from this machine. One of my websites, I have setup 
> access control with an .htaccess file. My problem is that on the local 
> network I can access the website and login, but from outside it does not 
> want to work. In my apache log I get the following message.
>  
> Wed May 06 10:02:38 2009] [error] [client 41.208.11.176] user test: 
> authentication failure for "/example/test/example": Password Mismatch
>  
> My password on the website has a few special characters, when removing 
> the characters it work fine from outside. Password characters &!@. I 
> just want to know how is it that when using this characters in my 
> password, the website does not want to work from the outside of my 
> network. But it still works from inside.

I would also expect the transfer of the password to be the same whatever 
interface it came from.  So my guess is that the authentication files 
are acquired from different locations when coming from one interface 
rather than another interface.  Have a look at what the access.log says 
both when successful and when unsuccessful.

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