Topic: Plone and a Password-protected Ibay

[wjhobbs]

I recently installed Plone on two ibays using Des Dougan's contrib. One is intended to be my main site (e.g. mysite.ca) and the other one I wanted available on a restricted basis for demonstration purposes (e.g., demo.mysite.ca).

As a side note, I originally had my SME server primary domain set to 'mysite.ca' but Plone took over and prevented me from getting at the server-manager panel. So my main site is now in a separate ibay.

For the demo site I set the ibay web access to to "Entire Internet (password required outside local network)". But when I tested access from outside, it went straight to the Plone portal. It did not ask for a password. I suspect that the RewriteRule directive in httpd.conf (to send the traffic to Plone) took over before the password protection feature could be invoked.

This is not earth-shattering but is not the behaviour I expected. Can anyone suggest how I might resolve the problem?

Thanks.

John