| xsun | noodl: All right, I was afraid to use Apache to authenticate users. |
| noodl | xsun: why's that? |
| xsun | Because I have a 'large' amount of users to authenticate. About 600 users... |
| noodl | ldap seems like a good choice then. i'm unfamilliar with ldap auth, though there are plenty of people on this channel who are (mainly during late euro time zones, it seems). there's a bare bones guide here: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Recipes/UseLDAPToPasswordProtectAFolder |
| xsun | noodl: Oh, Thats pretty good. I will check this wiki, thanks for the support mate. |
| chipig | hmm the howto should also mention you need mod_ldap + mod_authnz_ldap its.. extremely.. confusing. on purpose i guess. |
| xsun | Hmm, I see |
| noodl | that howto is extremely weak |
| xsun | In fact I don't know if its more interesting write a Java application o that webserver to authenticate de users My programmers will spend a lot of time on this and I don't believe it will be reliable as mod_ldap authentication method |
| noodl | for 600 static usernames/passwords i'd reach for mod_authn_dbm first |
| xsun | hmmm |
| noodl | not that plain of htpass files are going to take >not much time to lookup *plain old |
| xsun | Currently they have an ASP application and IIS authenticate the users, and its a really crap... I'm looking to use Debian GNU/Linux+Apache+Java server instead "they" = the company who I work for :P |
| noodl | what's the most pressing issue? speed of auth lookup or manageability of the user set? |
| xsun | speed for sure |
| noodl | ok, then i'd go for mod_authn_dbm (or maybe mod_authn_dbd, with caching), but you'll end up having to write a bunch of scripts to do crud on the database |
| xsun | Hmmm... |
| fajita | Hmmm... is Is is_are my url wrong |
| noodl | i don't see any caching options for dbd/authn_dbd in the docs, so i guess that'd mod_rewrite specific so far chipig: any clues? niq did caching for RewriteMap with dbd, but is there a generic cache for dbd of some kind? |
| xsun | noodl: I will read some docs and search for the best way to authenticate the users. Thanks for your tips, very useful to me. |
| noodl | xsun: good luck :) |
| xsun | I will sleep a bit, thanks everybody and have a good night*. noodl: Thanks! |
| preinheimer | I built apache with --enable-ssl and --enable-module=ssl, however I'm getting "Invalid command 'SSLEngine'," when I invoke apachectl startssl I really have no idea where to go from here, what am I missing? |
| noodl | preinheimer: probably LoadModule for ssl |
| preinheimer | hmm I don't see an example of a loadmodule in any of the conf files (nor is there a module in the apache2/modules directory |
| noodl | did you build it from source? |
| preinheimer | yes |
| noodl | which version? |