Re: [mv] newbie: minimate security

[Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>]

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"Alex Melkomukov" <amelkomukov@navi.net> writes:

> ******    message to minivend-users from "Alex Melkomukov" <amelkomukov@navi.net>     ******
> 
> hi all,
> 
> ok, i'm tearing my hair out here.  i have MiniVend 4.02 installed with
> MiniMate 4.0.0.1 on BSDI 3.1 running Apache 1.3.9 and Perl 5.005_02.  the
> installations went fine and MiniVend works fine.  i spent some time figuring
> out that the owner needed to be added to the userdb before minimate would
> work, but seems to work fine now.  minivend is installed in a user's local
> directory and i am using ~/catalog.cgi/ instead of ~/cgi-bin/ to access the
> minivend html pages.  i secured the catalogs directory, but every time i try
> to secure the minivend directories following the instructions from
> www.linuxia.net/minimate, i get completely locked out.  if somebody could
> e-mail me off-list and share the specifics of securing the minimate
> directories (including what my 'LocationMatch' string should be, which
> directories to protect, where to create the .htaccess file, etc.) i would
> really appreciate it.

I think, MiniMate is properly protected by itself with version 4.0.0.1. 
It lacks in HTTPS support, though.

Ciao
        Racke

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