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  3. February 2005

RE: User Profiles

The first is that ScriptAliasMatch isn't needed to enable CGI and will drag down server performance on a busy site since it uses regular expressions.

You're right. I had changed it to ScriptAliasMatch to do some fooling around with removing the .PGM, but that caused other problems, so I switched it to what I have now -- which obviously isn't optimal.

However, on my box, the speed difference isn't noticable.


The second is that doing basic authentication inside of Directory containers is guaranteed to cause grief
[SNIP]
it just doesn't work well when the physical path to a resource is virtualized by it's run time (like with Net.Data or Java apps).

Thanks for pointing this out. I've never used Net.Data, and I haven't used Java in this manner -- so you may be right.


It's much better to use Location containers to do basic authentication since they operate off of the actual URI of the request and not the physical location of the resource. 

So, to fix this problem, I should configure Apache as follows, correct?

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /QSYS.LIB/LIBCGI.LIB

<Directory /QSYS.LIB/LIBCGI.LIB>
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow From all
</Directory>

<Location /cgi-bin>
   Require valid-user
   PasswdFile %%SYSTEM%%
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "AS/400 Sign On"
   ProfileToken on
</Location>

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