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From: Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Apache upgrade to 2.4 error AH00027: Buggy authn provider failed to set user
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:42:47
Message-Id: CAC=wYCF=W6GrrkTOD1Hd1Qad=H1PR3tu72_mqht5XDG4FMjwOw@mail.gmail.com
1 I've just upgraded to 2.4 and am using mod_access_compat, so I can use
2 the existing auth config in the short term. I've fixed a few things
3 and now the daemon loads cleanly, however, when i try to get the
4 anonymously available front page, it returns a 500 and error.log
5 shows;
6
7 [Tue Apr 03 16:13:33.595505 2012] [core:error] [pid 20896:tid
8 139858125358848] [client u.x.y.z:16567] AH00027: Buggy authn provider
9 failed to set user for /
10
11 At a password protected directory (there's an .htaccess) it also
12 returns 500 and the log is;
13 [Tue Apr 03 16:15:50.244851 2012] [core:alert] [pid 20895:tid
14 139858125358848] [client u.x.y.z:20702] /blah/blah/.htaccess: Invalid
15 command 'Require', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not
16 included in the server configuration
17
18 Shouldn't "Require" from the .htaccess file be recognised by
19 mod_access_compat? Any ideas about the AH00027 error?

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