“SMTP Error: Could not authenticate”

Linux, Sh*ts, ,

I had to install WP-Mail-Bank in one of my WordPress pages/blogs/store, so it can send emails to *people* 🙂

I was getting “SMTP Error: Could not authenticate”  on the test email tab.

I had to went to https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha and continue with this request. This gives us a 10min window to connect to Google in an *unsecure* way. Google detects the connection and allow it for the future.

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3949824/smtp-error-could-not-authenticate-in-phpmailer

Negotiation: discovered file(s) matching request

Apache

 

AH00687: Negotiation: discovered file(s) matching request: /home/httpd/html/domain.com/public_html/login (None could be negotiated)., referer: http://www.domain.com/

Under the domain.com.conf I had

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

The solution is to remove MultiViews from it.

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

 

Source: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2218-negotiation-discovered-file-s-matching-request-none-could-be-negotiated.htm

discourse – htpasswd protected

Apache

discour-apache-htpasswd

I have client who *needs* discourse under a subdomain that should be only accessed by users who have a valid username & password in a .htpasswd….
Since discourse doesn’t use Apache I had to implement Apache ProxyPass  to solve this ‘issue’…

This is how it looks…

<VirtualHost *:80>

 ServerName social.subdomain.com

 ProxyPreserveHost Off
 ProxyPass / http://192.241.XXX.XX/
 ErrorLog /data/logs/discourse_error.log

 <Location />
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "Only for members"
   AuthBasicProvider file
   AuthUserFile "/path/to/.htpasswd"
   Require valid-user
 </Location>

</VirtualHost>

This might not be the best solution….. comments are appreciated! 🙂