Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76450
.htaccess protected documents produce "The document contains no data." errors.
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:51 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 Description of problem: After setting up .htaccess files, configuring /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and restarting httpd, files will not open and a message says "The document contains no data." /var/log/httpd/errors says: [notice] child pid 20731 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create html document in a new directory, test that it gets delivered correctly 2. in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, set AllowOverride All in <Directory /> and <Directory "/var/www/html"> 3. run htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/users test 4. run chown apache:apache /etc/httpd/users 5. in the directory with the webpage, create a .htaccess file: AuthType Basic AuthName "Enter your name and password." AuthUserfile /etc/httpd/users require user test 6. run service httpd restart 7. try to open the page Actual Results: Get a popup error message saying "The document contains no data." Expected Results: Should have been prompted for a username and password. Additional info: /var/log/httpd/errors says: [notice] child pid 20731 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
After verifying that this does work correctly on another server, I reinstalled the OS, and now it works correctly.
I'll take it back. I still have a problem on my web server. I reinstalled everything again, and I'm seeing the exact same results as described above. What I find interesting is that if I deny/allow by IP address and try to open from an allowed address, it works. If I try to open from a denied addess, I get the "Document contains no data" message. I'm starting to wonder if this has anything to do with specific hardware. The server has dual Pentium IIs, and I'm running the latest i686 kernel from Red Hat. Let me know if I can send you anything that could help you troubleshoot this.
I could never reproduce this; can you attach your httpd.conf and error_log? What was the specific path to the .htaccess file you used?
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