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#1 2007-12-13 00:30:50

scotter

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Registered: 2007-12-11

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Problem with user security with TXP on IIS/Windows

I know that Windows/IIS doesn’t get much love here… but I was hoping someone can help me out.

I have a Server 2003/IIS6/PHP/mySQL setup that I have used for a couple years now and it’s been great.

I am working on a small intranet site to host some policy documents, org charts, etc. I want to secure the site via Acive Directory authentication (possibly via SSL but that’s later) but am having trouble. In the best case scenario I have to enter the user/pass three times before I can enter the site. On IE the site loads in stages, on FF (Win) it is blank then loads completely after the third user/pass challenge. I think that there is a new challenge/response for each portion or level the of site structure – meaning that the first response is for index.php and the root level, then a pw request from the images folder and one from the textpattern folder. I am inclined to think that is what is going on because on IE you can see the Powered With image load after the last password attempt.

The clarify, this isn’t using any of the TXP security, just built-in Windows directory security.

I made a duplicate site, this time with just basic html pages and folders (nothing dynamic, no php blog software, etc) – I applied the same security settings as above and was greeted with a logon prompt (what I wanted) and was able to logon fine; receiving just the one password request- I could click around and few static pages fine, no password prompts. I put a different blog software (not TXP, but PHP based) a few folders deep and was able to navigate to it (I had directory browsing on) but once I got to index.php I was prompted to login again and several more times as the page loaded.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

thanks in advance
Sean

ps… in standard form (anon access turned on) TXP works fine – creating new entries, file uploads, etc.

#2 2007-12-13 20:31:23

scotter

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Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: Problem with user security with TXP on IIS/Windows

bueller, bueller… anyone?

:)