Help, cannot get $PHP_AUTH_USER any more!

[earthsci]

After I updated to php 4.2.2 and apache 1.3.26 (for win2k)

i can not get $PHP_AUTH_USER in php any more. return null
what is the hell?

i use apache to ask for username and passwd, but after doing that, $PHP_AUTH_USER and $PHP_AUTH_PW return null.
i tried $_SERVER[PHP_AUTH_USER], the same thing, any one can help?

[jerdo]

Are you trying to get these variables in a password protected directory? If not those variables won't exist.

[hand]

<?php
  if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {
    header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Realm"');
    header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
    echo 'Text to send if user hits Cancel button\n';
    exit;
  } else {
  	$user = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'];
	$pwd = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'];
    echo "<p>Hello <b>$user</b> </p>";
    echo "<p>You entered <b>$pwd</b> as your password.</p>";
  }
?>

Please post the result of this test script

[lukeNZ]

hand-

I've tried that piece of script from the php documentation and several variations of it that I found online. Pasting your script and nothing else into a blank php file, I received a "500 internal server error" from Apache 2.0.40, with the following line appearing in the error log;

[Thu Aug 22 14:44:54 2002] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized: php.exe

This is PHP 4.2.2 running on winXPP. Any suggestions?

[morgon]

Sounds like you don't have PHP running as an ISAPI module, the recommended way to run it.

Read the PHP docs regarding PHP's ISAPI support for Apache as opposed to the CGI model.. MUCH easier to deal with, that way..

--Morgon