HTTP basic auth throwing 401 on non-slash trailed URL

[burley@…]

Greetings,

Using either a symlink (if the content is already present in an existing path, making a symlink in that same path back to its parent directory. ex: "ln -s . foo") or alias.url along with an auth.require section, URLs ending in a slash function properly, but those without get thrown a HTTP 401 error. Removing the auth requirement makes both URLs act consistently, responding with the right content. The order in which mod_alias and mod_auth load has no impact.

Example config snippets:

  auth.backend = "plain"
  auth.backend.plain.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/auth"
  auth.require =  (
    "" => (
      "method" => "basic",
      "realm" => "Authentication Required",
      "require" => "valid-user"
      )
    )

  alias.url = ( "/foo" => "/usr/local/www")

Thank you,

David Burley

[darix]

a few comments from irc: 1. the auth block is global 2. module load order doesnt matter