Phooey (#2)
To make basic auth work on the swiss army battleship, I have to
- Have a .htaccess file that says AuthType Basic,
- and which says Require user orc,
- and which refers to a AuthUserFile that is owned by the webserver user and group,
- AND which is in a path that's owned by the webserver user and group.
If any of these requirements don't get filled, I either get a cryptic "SYSTEM ERROR! CALL YOUR SYSADMIN AND TELL THEM THAT A SYSTEM ERROR HAPPENED!" or the STUPID STUPID STUPID webserver just keeps silently refusing the login attempt.
Grrr.