HTTP Auth woes

Hi,
I've installed PHPWiki and my authentication doesn't work.
It simply rejects my correct username/password.
Here's the auth code. It seems fine to me.

Code:

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  // Set these to your preferences.
  // For heaven's sake pick a good password!
  $wikiadmin  = "myuser";
  $adminpasswd = "mypass";

  // Do not tolerate sloppy systems administration
  if (empty($wikiadmin) || empty($adminpasswd)) {
      echo gettext("Set the administrator account and password first.\n");
      exit;
  }

  // From the manual, Chapter 16
  if (($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] != $wikiadmin  )  ||
      ($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']  != $adminpasswd)) {

    Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
  Header("WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=\"PhpWiki\"");
   

      echo gettext("You entered an invalid login or password."
      exit;
  }

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What server is it hosted on, because IIS doesn't like HTT Auth from PHP. If it is IIS then it can be configured to allow this. Gimmie a sec and I'll dig out the link.

Thanks for your help.
I'm on:
Apache 1.3.34 (Unix): PHP v4.4.1 (suExec enabled)
MySQL v4.0.25-standard.

It's not my server. I'm paying for some server space.
The php script was in fact provided by my ISP. It installs automatically (i provide a couple of basic settings and the rest is automated.)

I'll ask my ISP if all else fails.
Thanks

Your code seem valid, and nothings wrong with it. Have you tried printing out the values $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] when it failed to see if the information was sent correctly or at all?

Yeah, they seem to be blank. So the message isn't getting through.
Any ideas?

I've tried firefox and IE by the way. same problem.

Hmm try contacting your host because as far as i can tell it appear to be a problem with your host. They might be able to shed some more light on the situtation.

Ok will do.
Thanks very much for your help.

No worries, Can you please mark the thread as resolved :wave:

If php's set up as a cgi, then the apache authentication hooks don't work.

You'd need to speak to your host to investigate that / to change it