[mapserver-users] Securing a WMS server

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,

Those mapfile parameters are for Mapserver so that it can contact another WMS that is behind basic authentication. 
Your own WMS can not be put behind basic auth from a mapfile, you must configure Apache for that.

-Jukka Rahkonen-




YC Nyon wrote:
 
> Hi,

> I been trying to secure my WMS server resource via login/password using the mapfile configuration below. However, it's not working as it doensn't ask for any login/pwd with my testing using a wms client like Arcgis 9.3
The image map will just appear as usual.


> Rgds
> YC


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WEB
 TEMPLATE "default.html"
 IMAGEPATH "C:\web\soul\wms\temp\"
   IMAGEURL "/temp/"
 METADATA
 WMS_TITLE "Map Service"
    WMS_ABSTRACT "GIS"
 WMS_SERVER_VERSION "1.1.1"
    WMS_ONLINERESOURCE "http://localhost?map=/webwms/wms.map&"
    WMS_SRS "EPSG:4326"
 WMS_AUTH_TYPE  "basic"
    
   WMS_AUTH_USERNAME "1234" # username here
    WMS_AUTH_PASSWORD "1234" # password here
   END
END