Crowd Apache integration causes php files to download rather than execute as a script.

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Hello, I'm trying to integrate a website validation using Apache with Crowd. Below is the code that I use to add the Crowd related lines into my apache config file. ServerName my.website.com ServerAdmin webmaster@website.com CustomLog /path/to/logs/access_log combined ErrorLog /path/to/logs/error_log DocumentRoot /home/user/www DirectoryIndex index.html index.php # AuthName "Atlassian Crowd" # AuthType Basic # AuthBasicProvider crowd # CrowdAppName appname # CrowdAppPassword appapassword # CrowdURL http://localhost:8095 # Require valid-user Options Includes ExecCGI FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all The commented lines (beginning with #) are the ones that I added to integrate Crowd. Please note that the website works normally when these lines are commented out (of course no authentication is done with Crowd). When I uncomment the lines and restart Apache, it seems like the integration worked as Apache prompts me for a login/password using the 'Atlassian Crowd" realm as specified in the above config file. But after I login successfully, I'm being asked by Apache to download the index.php rather than execute it as a script. Do I have to set additional options other than what I have done above? Would appreciate any pointers on this. Thanks, Ravi

unknown · Answer

I'm having the same problem. By the moment i couldn't solve it. My virtual host config is: ServerName subdomain.domain.com ServerAdmin admin_mail@domain.com DocumentRoot /var/www Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all AuthName "Atlassian Crowd" AuthType Basic AuthBasicProvider crowd CrowdAppName appname CrowdAppPassword appapassword CrowdURL http://domain.com/crowd/ CrowdAcceptSSO On CrowdCreateSSO On CrowdBasicAuthEncoding UTF-8 CrowdTimeout 5 #CrowdCacheMaxAge 60 #CrowdCacheMaxEntries 500 Require valid-user ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined

Ravi Ravi1 · Answer

This is embarassing. I think I solved by removing the

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

line. Apparently that has something to with mod_authnz_crowd or something.  Anyways, if there is anything I'm still missing, I'd appreciate a response.

thanks,

Ravi