[Zope] IIS, PCGI, authentication

Andy McKay andy@agmweb.ca
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:27:51 -0800


Stupid questions:
- So IIS's version of allow anonymous access is turned on?
- Is it IIS or Zope that is having the problem?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Nixon" <tom.nixon@aim23.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 8:58 AM
Subject: [Zope] IIS, PCGI, authentication


> I am running Zope under IIS using PCGI and it works great, but I can't
> view pages that require authentication.
> 
> I found the following in the archive but it caused a forbidden error
> rather than popping up the login dialog. Does anyone know what the
> easiest way to do this is?
> 
> T.
> 
> Note that you probably have to tweak your IIS configuration to
> get IIS to pass authentication headers to Zope. You need to make
> sure that BOTH "Windows NT Challenge/Response" AND "Basic
> Authentication"
> are DESELECTED for the cgi directory where you placed the cgi exe.
> Otherwise, IIS will intervene on every request and try to do the
> authentication itself (which will fail, of course).
> 
> 
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