Hello!I've fiddling around to get my wordpress running and I may have broken access to frontview in the process, that or the latest upgrade broke it.apache-ssl runs under www-data user and group.I was first presented with:(13)Permission denied: /frontview/ui/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readablewhich i solved by chmod 755 then(13)Permission denied: /frontview/ui/resource/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readablewhich i solved by chmod 755 thenetcThe errors i'm getting now is the followinguser root: authentication failure for "/admin": Password Mismatchauthentication failure for "/shares": Password MismatchI'm out of ideas and hope someone can shine some light on this issue.My blog is working perfectly running wordpress, the frontview doesn't work.Thanks in advanceJohan Nilsson

You might want to post the SSH commands you've used.To check what you've done:# cd# cat .bash_commands

Thanks for teaching me the .bash_commands func, didn't know about it : )It did unfortunately not show anything of interest, besides maybe a restart of apache-ssl as another user.I got the wordpress blog running some weeks ago, it was not until today I realized frontview wasn't workingThanks in advance for any further hints!Really appreciate it!

What's useful depends on opinion.What command did you use to restart apache?apache should be restarted with a command such as:# /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -t && /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -k graceful

Did a killall and restarted apache the way you instructed.Still suffering the same symptoms, any other ideas?Is there anything else I can provide to further figure out the matter?Thanks

Well you haven't posted the SSH commands or explained whether you've installed Wordpress and PHP via add-ons or some other way.

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mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 06, 2012
You might want to post the SSH commands you've used.

To check what you've done:

# cd
# cat .bash_commands
Dashu
Aspirant
Jun 06, 2012
Thanks for teaching me the .bash_commands func, didn't know about it : )
It did unfortunately not show anything of interest, besides maybe a restart of apache-ssl as another user.

I got the wordpress blog running some weeks ago, it was not until today I realized frontview wasn't working

Thanks in advance for any further hints!
Really appreciate it!
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 06, 2012
What's useful depends on opinion.

What command did you use to restart apache?

apache should be restarted with a command such as:

# /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -t && /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -k graceful
Dashu
Aspirant
Jun 06, 2012
Did a killall and restarted apache the way you instructed.
Still suffering the same symptoms, any other ideas?
Is there anything else I can provide to further figure out the matter?

Thanks
mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 06, 2012
Well you haven't posted the SSH commands or explained whether you've installed Wordpress and PHP via add-ons or some other way.
Dashu
Aspirant
Jun 07, 2012
I manually installed wordpress but installed php via an addon (can't remember which, but i remember paying for it)
Do you want me to paste the whole ssh commands for current user and root?

I was realizing the status code of 255 that I am getting.
*If you see a negative error code (or a number like 255 or 254) reported in the Apache error log, then that is an error code from mod_authnz_external and means that it was unable to run pwauth at all*

My Auth.Conf
<IfModule authnz_external_module>
AuthType Basic
AuthBasicProvider external
AuthExternal pwauth
</IfModule>
<IfModule !authnz_external_module>
LoadModule authnz_external_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authnz_external.so
LoadModule auth_sys_group_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_sys_group.so
AddExternalAuth pwauth /usr/bin/pwauth
SetExternalAuthMethod pwauth environment
</IfModule>
Dashu
Aspirant
Jun 07, 2012
Could it have something to do with permissions on pwauth?
-rwsr-x--- 1 root admin 4948 2010-07-28 23:28 pwauth

It requires root or admin but apache-ssl runs as www-data
NAS:/usr/bin# ps aux | grep apache-ssl
root 16525 0.0 4.2 104520 42960 ? Ss 06:25 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf
www-data 16536 0.0 7.1 122048 72496 ? S 06:25 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf
www-data 22430 0.0 3.7 106156 38256 ? S 11:45 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf
Dashu
Aspirant
Jun 08, 2012
I chmod pwauth to 777 and received a new error:

AuthExtern pwauth [/usr/bin/pwauth]: Failed (50) for user root

Where:
50 STATUS_INT_USER pwauth was invoked by a uid not on the SERVER_UIDS list. If you get this error code, you probably have SERVER_UIDS set incorrectly in pwauth's config.h file.

Anybody have any knowledge about where i may find pwauthäs config file?

Thanks
Dashu
Aspirant
Jun 11, 2012
Bump
Dashu
Aspirant
Jun 13, 2012
Have been digging around some more and realized I don't have a the following file

/etc/pam.d/pwauth

Is this file supposed to exist?
Or where do pwauth get its authentication rules?

Thanks in advance