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Windows users do not have the ability to specify \"AuthUserFile /dev/null\". Furthermore, that is an undesirable solution (as others have noted). This is the appropriate method, provided as a complete example:

<Directory />
	Options FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride None
	Order deny,allow
	Deny from all
	Satisfy all
	AuthBasicProvider dbm
	AuthDBMType SDBM
	AuthName \"Protected Area\"
	AuthType Basic
	AuthDBMUserFile \"D:/Program Files/Apache/passwords.dat\"
	require valid-user
</Directory>

Obviously, \"AuthBasicProvider\" and \"AuthDBMType\" must reflect the correct values for your system (available types for \"AuthDBMType\" are: default|SDBM|GDBM|NDBM|DB). See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_auth_dbm.html and http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.1/mod/mod_auth_basic.html for additional information.

The above example functions as expected with Apache 2.2.6 on Windows 7 x86. \"passwords.dat\" should be created with something like this:

> D:\\Program Files\\apache\\bin>htdbm -cs \"D:\\Program Files\\Apache\\passwords.dat\" yourname

Note also that, according to the mod_auth_basic manual page (cited above), setting \"AuthBasicAuthoritative\" to \"Off\" \"... should only be necessary when combining mod_auth_basic with third-party modules that are not configured with the AuthBasicProvider directive.\"

Thanks to everyone here for the assistance in getting this to work properly (under Windows, no less).

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this works for me:

	AuthType		Basic
	AuthName		\"Login!\"
	AuthPAM_Enabled		On
	AuthBasicAuthoritative	Off
	AuthUserFile		/dev/null 
	Require			valid-user

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For anyone who has the same problem the fix is to add the following line to the <directory> directives

AuthUserFile /dev/null

The error messages are apparently caused by apache 2.2.2 expecting a users file even if the auth method doesn\'t use one.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/apache-modauthmysql-problem-493429/

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Still not working for me. I\'m using a VServer with Ubuntu and Plesk installed. \"AuthUserFile /dev/null\" gets rid of the entry in apache\'s error.log, but doesn\'t solve the problem. Adding \"AuthBasicAuthoritative Off\" doesn\'t help either.
Putting in \"AuthPAM_Enabled On\" lets apache throw an \"option unknown\"-error on reload
Please help!

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Answer 9: ;-)

If you have this issue with ldap+apache2 try to add :

AuthType  Basic
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

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the options specified here works fine

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Is solution perfect. Thanks.

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I have tried Answer#4 , it works

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Answer#4 works but I think that the order of the settings is important - I had the same settings but in different order and apache still logged errors.
But now it works like a charm - Thanks!

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