It is password protected (HTTP authentication) and no I have not changed web servers ever. could it just be a problem with the hosting site?

Yes, it could be.

As a diagnostic, try adding a simple "echo" script to dump the environment. 

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
  print "<html><body><pre>";
  foreach my $key ( sort keys %ENV ) {
      print $key, ": ", $ENV{$key}, "<br>\n";
  }
  print "</pre></body></html>\n";

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will get you most of the way there. If you need to supply a password to get to the script, and it doesn't display REMOTE_USER, then your provider may have changed web server settings.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: remote_user not identifing user by dws
in thread remote_user not identifing user by mnlight

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