diff --git a/codepot/etc/perl/Codepot/AccessHandler.pm b/codepot/etc/perl/Codepot/AccessHandler.pm
index ff70a7de..c24aab0b 100644
--- a/codepot/etc/perl/Codepot/AccessHandler.pm
+++ b/codepot/etc/perl/Codepot/AccessHandler.pm
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ use URI;
 use DBI;
 use Digest::SHA1 qw (sha1_hex);
 
-use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK DECLINED FORBIDDEN HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR PROXYREQ_PROXY);
+use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK DECLINED FORBIDDEN HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR PROXYREQ_PROXY AUTH_REQUIRED);
 
 sub get_config
 {
@@ -366,6 +366,13 @@ sub __handler
 			if (lc($cfg->{svn_read_access}) eq 'anonymous')
 			{
 				# grant an anonymous user the read access.
+				if (!defined($userid) || $userid eq '') 
+				{
+					# httpd 2.4 emits the following message if the user is not set
+					#   AH00027: No authentication done but request not allowed
+					#   without authentication for /xxx/xxx. Authentication not configured?
+					$r->user('<codepot-anonymous-user>');
+				}
 				return Apache2::Const::OK;
 			}
 		}
@@ -455,4 +462,5 @@ sub handler: method
 	close_database ($dbh);
 	return $res;
 }
+
 1;
diff --git a/codepot/etc/perl/Codepot/AuthenHandler.pm b/codepot/etc/perl/Codepot/AuthenHandler.pm
index e02c9ab7..a48d4652 100644
--- a/codepot/etc/perl/Codepot/AuthenHandler.pm
+++ b/codepot/etc/perl/Codepot/AuthenHandler.pm
@@ -3,10 +3,17 @@ package Codepot::AuthenHandler;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
-use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK DECLINED FORBIDDEN HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED  HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+use Apache2::Access ();
+use Apache2::RequestUtil ();
+use Apache2::RequestRec ();
+use Apache2::Log;
 
+use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK DECLINED FORBIDDEN HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED  HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR AUTH_REQUIRED);
+
+use Data::Dumper;
 sub handler: method
 {
+	my ($class, $r) = @_;
 	return Apache2::Const::OK;
 }
 1;