Hi !
We have set up several Wikis in our company with different URLs. The WIKI is secured via a .htaccess file. At the first access Browser asks you to authenticate, which works. But then, browser asks again and again. The number of authentication challenges seems to be dependent on the number of images which are embedded into a page.
So in worst cases there are up to 10 authentications necessary.
Interestingly only the first authentication leads to a HTTP FORBIDDEN response if failing. If one of the following challenges is cancelled, only some images arent loaded.
The symptoms come with any browser, with any user, logged in or not logged in. The symptoms increase if cache is cleared (because cached files have to be reloaded by the browser)
The configuration is
* MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/: 1.7.1 * PHP http://www.php.net/: 5.2.0 (apache2handler) * MySQL http://www.mysql.com/: 5.0.33-log
A collegue told me that the problem can relate to a special firewall configuration.
A misconfigured .htaccess file is possible too.
Has anybody noticed such a behavior and how did you solve it ?
regards
Michael