Unable to access frontview

[Dashu]

Hello!

I've fiddling around to get my wordpress running and I may have broken access to frontview in the process, that or the latest upgrade broke it.
apache-ssl runs under www-data user and group.

I was first presented with:
(13)Permission denied: /frontview/ui/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
which i solved by chmod 755 then
(13)Permission denied: /frontview/ui/resource/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable
which i solved by chmod 755 then

etc

The errors i'm getting now is the following
user root: authentication failure for "/admin": Password Mismatch
authentication failure for "/shares": Password Mismatch

I'm out of ideas and hope someone can shine some light on this issue.
My blog is working perfectly running wordpress, the frontview doesn't work.

Thanks in advance
Johan Nilsson

[mdgm]

You might want to post the SSH commands you've used.

To check what you've done:

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# cd
# cat .bash_commands


[Dashu]

Thanks for teaching me the .bash_commands func, didn't know about it : )
It did unfortunately not show anything of interest, besides maybe a restart of apache-ssl as another user.

I got the wordpress blog running some weeks ago, it was not until today I realized frontview wasn't working

Thanks in advance for any further hints!
Really appreciate it!

[mdgm]

What's useful depends on opinion.

What command did you use to restart apache?

apache should be restarted with a command such as:

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# /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -t && /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -k graceful


[Dashu]

Did a killall and restarted apache the way you instructed.
Still suffering the same symptoms, any other ideas?
Is there anything else I can provide to further figure out the matter?

Thanks

[mdgm]

Well you haven't posted the SSH commands or explained whether you've installed Wordpress and PHP via add-ons or some other way.

[Dashu]

I manually installed wordpress but installed php via an addon (can't remember which, but i remember paying for it)
Do you want me to paste the whole ssh commands for current user and root?

I was realizing the status code of 255 that I am getting.
*If you see a negative error code (or a number like 255 or 254) reported in the Apache error log, then that is an error code from mod_authnz_external and means that it was unable to run pwauth at all*

My Auth.Conf
<IfModule authnz_external_module>
AuthType Basic
AuthBasicProvider external
AuthExternal pwauth
</IfModule>
<IfModule !authnz_external_module>
LoadModule authnz_external_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authnz_external.so
LoadModule auth_sys_group_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_auth_sys_group.so
AddExternalAuth pwauth /usr/bin/pwauth
SetExternalAuthMethod pwauth environment
</IfModule>

[Dashu]

Could it have something to do with permissions on pwauth?
-rwsr-x--- 1 root admin 4948 2010-07-28 23:28 pwauth

It requires root or admin but apache-ssl runs as www-data
NAS:/usr/bin# ps aux | grep apache-ssl
root 16525 0.0 4.2 104520 42960 ? Ss 06:25 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf
www-data 16536 0.0 7.1 122048 72496 ? S 06:25 0:02 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf
www-data 22430 0.0 3.7 106156 38256 ? S 11:45 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl -f /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf

[Dashu]

I chmod pwauth to 777 and received a new error:

AuthExtern pwauth [/usr/bin/pwauth]: Failed (50) for user root

Where:
50 STATUS_INT_USER pwauth was invoked by a uid not on the SERVER_UIDS list. If you get this error code, you probably have SERVER_UIDS set incorrectly in pwauth's config.h file.

Anybody have any knowledge about where i may find pwauthäs config file?

Thanks

[Dashu]

Bump

[Dashu]

Have been digging around some more and realized I don't have a the following file

/etc/pam.d/pwauth

Is this file supposed to exist?
Or where do pwauth get its authentication rules?

Thanks in advance

[mdgm]

No there's no /etc/pam.d/pwauth file on my system.

Not sure what you've done to cause the problem from the information you've provided.

Have you tried an OS Re-install?:

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touch /.os_update


Then either use the reboot command or shutdown safely pressing power button twice. Then power on again.

[Dashu]

Thanks for you input!
Wouldn't an os reinstall break my wordpress install among other things?
As it is now, everything is working peachy except frontview.

The last thing I remember doing was to upgrade the firmware to 4.2.20.
Before that I installed some custom packages php etc to get wordpress going

[mdgm]

Thanks for you input!
Wouldn't an os reinstall break my wordpress install among other things?

Quite possibly.

The last thing I remember doing was to upgrade the firmware to 4.2.20.
Before that I installed some custom packages php etc to get wordpress going

Still would be of help to have a list of the commands you entered.

[Dashu]

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