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Title: WebShare Internal Server Error
Post by: Arnie on October 17, 2019, 05:51:56 AM

Hi all,

When I upgraded my SME8.2 to SME9.2, I reinstalled the WebShare contrib but I kept getting "500 Internal Server Error" whenever I tried to log in to the share I used to have on the old version. As it was not that important, I let is go but now, it has become necessary to get it working.

The httpd error.log log shows the following when I try to log in:

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[Thu Oct 17 11:44:17 2019] [crit] [client 192.168.0.1] configuration error:  couldn't check user.  No user file?: /
[Thu Oct 17 11:44:17 2019] [crit] [client 192.168.0.1] configuration error:  couldn't check user.  No user file?: /favicon.ico

If anyone who has knowledge could please help, I would appreciate it.

Thanks.

Title: Re: WebShare Internal Server Error
Post by: janet on October 17, 2019, 09:18:30 AM

Arnie

From the wiki article it seems that contrib is potentially problematic on sme9.x ???? I cannot recall if I tried it.

Have you tried recreating the webshare or better still create a new webshare with a new name) & then see if it can be accessed, rather than trying to access the restored data webshare folder.

Title: Re: WebShare Internal Server Error
Post by: Arnie on October 17, 2019, 10:54:22 AM

Hi Janet,

Thanks for the reply. After blindly stumbling around and poking things 'till they started working, I found the following:

I had originally set WebShare up using the wiki article to use ibays instead of /opt. This time around I had to modify the ibay to force secure connections, so the account db entry for the ibay looks like this:

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band=ibay
    CgiBin=enabled
    Gid=5050
    Group=members
    Name=Band File Share
    PasswordSet=no
    PublicAccess=global
    SSL=enabled
    Uid=5050
    UserAccess=wr-group-rd-group


 Next, there was a problem with the custom template in the wiki. The section that reads:

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       if ( "$smeusers" eq "no" ) {       
               $OUT .= "    AuthUserFile \/home\/e-smith\/db\/webshare\/htpasswd.$key\n";
       }
       else {
               $OUT .= "    AuthExternal pwauth\n";
       }

should read:

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       if ( "$smeusers" eq "no" ) {       
               $OUT .= "    AuthUserFile \/home\/e-smith\/db\/webshare\/htpasswd.$key\n";
       }
       else {
               $OUT .= "    AuthBasicProvider external\n";
               $OUT .= "    AuthExternal pwauth\n";

       }

With those changes made, it is now working as it did on SME8.2. Well, at least it is for me and I didn't need to reinstall the contrib or restore the ibay again.

I don't have edit access to the wiki, so if you could please add this to the article I would appreciate it.

Thanks again.