Re: private directories

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 13:56, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> Hence, because your root is anonymous-readable, no auth is pulled when
> checking out from the root.
>
> One possible (admittedly hackish) workaround would be to require
> authentication, and publish the existence of a "user=guest/pass=guest"
> account.
>

OK, that makes sense to me now. What I ended up doing was to change it
to anonymous only with read access removed from the secret directory.
Then I created another virtualhost with the same name but on port 8080
for read-write and no anonymous access. Now I got the best of both
worlds.

-Dave