Authentication prompts for ARI after upgrade to 2.10

[silentaccord]

We just upgraded to FreePBX 2.10 and users are complaining about a login prompt when accessing the recordings page (e.g., http://server/recordings). I searched for this issue and the only mention I could find was a post by homerbartlett on February 16, 2012. He resurrected an old thread (http://www.freepbx.org/forum/freepbx/installation/resolved-password-required-when-none-should-be) about a different but similar issue. As homerbartlett explained it fairly well, I’ll just copy and paste:

@homerbartlett

It appears that in FreePBX 2.10 the /var/www/html/recordings/theme/page.tpl.php makes 4 references to CSS and JS files in /var/www/html/admin/assets, which of course means loading http://
/recordings in a web browser results in 4 digest authentication prompts because /var/www/html/admin is a protected area. If the user cancels out of each auth prompt the page does eventually load, but it’s annoying and confusing.

Temporary fix that is working for us was to copy /var/www/html/admin/assets/css and /var/www/html/admin/assets/js into /var/www/html/recordings/ and then find/replace all references to “/admin/assets” (in /var/www/html/recordings/theme/page.tpl.php) to just “assets” but that may not be the cleanest way to permanently fix this.

Can anyone tell me if this is a FreePBX bug or issue with our distro (PIAF)?

Thanks

[silentaccord]

I tried homerbartlett’s method and we were still seeing one authentication prompt on each page load. In addition to the replacements above, I also had to search for and remove all occurrences of “/admin/” from /var/www/html/recordings/theme/page.tpl.php to eliminate all the prompts.

[warmbowski]

I took a different tack. I added the code below to /etc/pbx/htttpdconf/pbx.conf just under the entry to restrict the /var/www/html/admin directory. Then I restarted the httpd service. I think pbx.conf is a Freepbx file.

<Directory /var/www/html/admin/assets/js>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/html/admin/assets/css>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/html/admin/assets/images>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</Directory>

[chris1]

warmbowski - We used your solution and the problem is now resolved. Thank you! Did you use PBXinaFlash for your installation?

[SamSanders]

Thanks it works perfect after that change.