Login for Webmail

[roidigital]

Hi ppl,

I currently provide web-based email for friends etc. This is based on horde.org webmail hosted in a linux environment. My problem is that if users were to go to the url eg webmail.mydomain.com, users will be prompted with the little window that asked them for their user/pass (like the ones u get when trying to access other comps in your network). Once successful, it will then get you to the actual login page (hotmail style) and asked for the same info again.

My question is does anyone have suggestion(s) on how to go around this or can do this? All help will be much appreciated.

[jonathen]

Hi,

It sounds like you have a .htaccess file within the directory that also contains the login page and other files for your webmail script.

Have a look in the dir for a .htaccess file and either amend it, or rename it to something like access.txt

That should stop the users being prompted by the pop-up box for a login, but make sure it doesn't affect the actual working of the script (it may contain some other variables like a rewrite rule - if it does, then simply remove the access parts of the file and leave in the rewrite conditions)

HTH

Jonathen

[roidigital]

Found the htaccess file but no sign of anything unsual.

[jonathen]

Does .htaccess file contain something along the lines of this:

AuthUserFile www.your-domain/passwords/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Members Area Only"
AuthType Basic
<Limit GET>
require user admin
</Limit>

...if so, then this is the cause of the user/login prompt.

HTH

Jonathen

[roidigital]

jonathen, check PM 🙂