[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler - Fix to help enable authentication for the webinterface

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Fri Nov 9 15:44:28 UTC 2007


Tim Verhoeven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The current process for enabled authentication for the webinterface
> involves setting "AllowOverride Node" to "AllowOverride All" for the
> cgi-bin directory in the main apache configfile.
>
> This can be solved much cleaner by adding this to the cobbler.conf
> httpd configfile :
>
> <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin/cobbler">
>     AllowOverride All
>     Options None
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> This only sets the "AllowOverride" for the Cobbler cgi-bin directory,
> not the whole cgi-bin directory. It's all a bit cleaner.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
>   

+1.   I'll add this.





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