I set up authentication on my personal public_html in my home dir, but it takes no effect. Ie., I should get a pop-up asking for my credentials, but this doesn't happen. The authentication worked fine with a directory in the server's root directory, and it worked ok. Now I'm restructuring the server.Here are some more details. There are a few side problems and questions related to the config file, which I put in bold. If you can help me with them too, that would be great.I have the main HTTP directory in /var/www/html and the same for HTTPS. There's only one file there, index.html with a link to my personal ~tomas URL. It works fine. I'm using the userdir mod for mapping ~tomas.I also have a personal cgi-bin directory, and the CGIs work ok, but I would like the URL ~tomas/cgi-bin to show the directory listing, which doesn't work for some reason and I get 403 Forbidden.I want to have the main directory available in both HTTPS and HTTP and with no authorisation. But once the client requests one of the personal public_html directories through ~user, the access should be authenticated and the authentication should take place over HTTPS. So HTTP needs to switch to HTTPS. I've already set up and tested HTTPS facilities, but have not yet set up any enforcement in this context. So if you can give me a tip on this, that will be great. Especially if you know the standard way of integrating these two (enforcing HTTPS + authentication). I have no FQDN if it matters.The main question is nevertheless, how to get the authentication itself work for ~user, even over HTTP.I put all the configs in userdir.conf and I guess the problem is with using the wildcard in /home/*/public_html. I'm a newb with Apache, however. Here's the userdir.conf.<IfModule mod_userdir.c>        UserDir public_html        UserDir disabled        UserDir enabled tomas        <Directory /home/*/public_html>                AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes                Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec                <Limit GET POST OPTIONS>                        Require all granted                </Limit>                <LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS>                        Require all denied                </LimitExcept>                AuthType Basic                AuthName Personal HTML                AuthUserFile /usr/share/apache2/passwd/passwords                Require valid-user                SSLOptions +StdEnvVars        </Directory>        <Directory /home/*/public_html/cgi-bin>                Options ExecCGI Indexes                SetHandler cgi-script        </Directory></IfModule># vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noetIf you have any comments on this config file or about my approach to Apache in general, please do comment.
How to set up authentication for the personal userdir in Apache?
ubuntu;apache httpd;authentication