Authtype not set...

[BrainDead]

I am learning Linux. I am setting up a new webserver. I always do things the hard way.

Anyway, I have a happily running server. HAD, a happily running Apache (I had to mess that up of course).

I will be co-locating this server, so I installed Webmin so that making setting will be easier!?

After I installed Webmin, I poked around a little, I was trying to set up a virtual host. I am not sure what I did but now (when http'ing to the server root) I get the error:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused
the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


Apache/1.3.12 Server at 192.168.0.20 Port 80

If I ask for http://.../~scott (a valid user) I get:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /~scott on this server.


Apache/1.3.12 Server at 192.168.0.20 Port 80


I looked through httpd.conf found no declaration of Authtype... AuthDB's etc. Do I need to declare an Authtype BASIC or something?

[BrainDead]

DUH... I guess that if I listed the actual error from the Apahche log file it would be more helpful...

Fri Jun 15 05:23:47 2001] [crit] [client 192.168.0.27] configuration error: couldn't perform authentication. AuthType not set!: /