Apache won't start with default config

[Eric G]

root@amargosa:/etc/apache2# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04

root@amargosa:/etc/apache2# apt-cache policy ocsinventory-server
ocsinventory-server:
  Installed: 2.0.5-1.1
  Candidate: 2.0.5-1.1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0.5-1.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

root@amargosa:/etc/apache2# service apache2 restart
 * Restarting web server apache2 [fail]
 * The apache2 configtest failed.
Output of config test was:
[Tue Sep 30 16:04:35.696988 2014] [proxy_html:notice] [pid 10440] AH01425: I18n support in mod_proxy_html requires mod_xml2enc. Without it, non-ASCII characters in proxied pages are likely to display incorrectl y.
AH00526: Syntax error on line 303 of /etc/apache2/conf.d/ocsinventory.conf:
Unknown Authz provider: SOAP_USER
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

At this point Apache will not start due to the configuration file error.

Editing /etc/apache2/conf.d/ocsinventory.conf and commenting out line 302 and 303 fixes the problem, I am not sure about the security impact. These lines read:

AuthUserFile "APACHE_AUTH_USER_FILE"
require "SOAP_USER"

This is documented here:

http://forums.ocsinventory-ng.org/viewtopic.php?id=13917

It seems to me that the "require" directive is missing something, it should read something like:

require user "SOAP_USER"

This satisfies the Apache configuration and Apache will now start, but I do not know how this impacts functionality/security.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Cyrille Bollu (cyrille-bollu)]

'seems the correct change to do is described here http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ocsinventory.git/tree/ocsng-httpd24.patch