[galaxy-user] Galaxy + Apache + External Authentication

Hello,

I'm trying to setup galaxy to run with apache and external authentication - and I can't get this to work. (This is a not a galaxy question per se, more of an apache question, but hopefully you can still help me).

First step was to setup apache/galaxy with mode rewrite - works perfectly. I've added these two lines to a 'conf' file in /etc/httpd/conf.d:

ReWriteRule ^/galaxy$ /galaxy/ [R] RewriteRule ^/galaxy(.*) http://localhost:8080$1 [P]

Browsing to http://myserver/galaxy indeed goes to galaxy and works ok.

Then, I've tested a simple authentication directive (independent of galaxy):

Alias /galaxy "/home/gordon/galaxy" <Directory /home/gordon/galaxy> AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Files" AuthUserFile /home/gordon/httpd_passwords Require user gordon </Directory>

And this also works OK.

Now I want to combine the two - but it doesn't work.

My "ReWriteRule" are ignored when they are inside a <Directory> clause. I've also tried <Location> - same results.

Any ideas ?

Thanks, Gordon