Apache environment strangeness

[Dan Coutu]

Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007 10:44, Paul Lussier wrote:
>
>   
>> This took me 2.5 seconds to find:
>>
>>  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/FAQ.html#remote-user-var
>>
>> Footnotes:
>>
>> [1] googling first more often than not leads to the correct page in
>>     the docs faster than visiting them first and searching there.
>>     
>
>     Maybe this is "Google 101" that I should have learned long ago, but 
> I never seem to get want I want that quickly from Google.  (300,000 
> matches takes a while to get through.)  For guidance, what search 
> term(s) did you use to get the above answer so quickly.  Is there a 
> simple general strategy behind your search?  
>
> Jim Kuzdrall
>
>   
I'm with Jim on this one. I came up with thousands of Google results and
nothing in the first 100 or so addressed the issue. None of those links
was the link above.

As it turns out this link was very useful. The location of the cgi
scripts had changed as a part of cleaning up the directory structure and
the config file was providing basic authentication on a non-existent
directory. Once I fixed the config by correcting the path things went
back to normal and worked.

Thanks Paul!

BTW, I still haven't seen your original email, only Jim's reply to it
(which fortunately included it.)