I recently upgraded to apache 2.4.35 and was having some issues with password file to secure xymon-seccgi. I got not get apache to read the password file. To get it to work I had to change from Require all granted to Require all denied. Now, it works. I get prompted to enter username and password.
Here is the section from my httpd.conf file for your reference if you will run into similar problems.
ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/cgi-secure/" <Directory "/opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/cgi-secure"> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Includes <IfModule mod_authz_core.c> # Apache 2.4+ Require all denied </IfModule> <IfModule !mod_authz_core.c> Order deny,allow Allow from all </IfModule>
# Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept.
# Although expected in $XYMONHOME/etc/ by the useradm and chpasswd
# scripts, files here can be read with the "config" message type,
# which allows status-privileged clients to read arbitrary regular files
# from the directory.
#
# This file should be owned and readable only by the apache server user,
# and ideally merely a symlink to a location outside of $XYMONHOME/etc/
#
# Create it with:
# htpasswd -c /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME
# chown apache:apache /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd
# chmod 640 /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd
# Add more users / change passwords with: "htpasswd /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd USERNAME"
#
# You can also use a group file to restrict admin access to members of a
# group, instead of anyone who is logged in. In that case you must setup
# the "xymongroups" file, and change the "Require" settings to require
# a specific group membership. See the Apache docs for more details.
AuthUserFile /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymonpasswd
AuthGroupFile /opt/app/workload/bbapp/bb/server/etc/xymongroups
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Xymon Administration"
# "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in.
Require valid-user
# "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND
# are members of the "admins" group in xymongroups.
# Require group admins</Directory>
I also enabled the following modules. LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so LoadModule authn_dbm_module modules/mod_authn_dbm.so LoadModule authn_anon_module modules/mod_authn_anon.so LoadModule authn_core_module modules/mod_authn_core.so LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so LoadModule authz_core_module modules/mod_authz_core.so LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so LoadModule reqtimeout_module modules/mod_reqtimeout.so LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so