[mythtv-users] .htaccess
Andy Burns
fedora at adslpipe.co.uk
Wed Apr 12 22:46:55 UTC 2006
Ben Edwards (lists) wrote:
> I have apache2 running on Ubuntu, can someone please point me to a step
> by step howto so I can password protect directory's using .htaccess.
> Also is this recursive (i.e. douse it protect all directorys under it or
> just the directory in question?
Don't fall into the trap of thinking .htaccess is "the" way of securing
folders, it is just "a" way. You can do it within the httpd.conf
instead, first create a password file by running
htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/mypasswdfile myusername
and enter the password, if you want to add additional users do so with
htpasswd mypasswdfile otherusername
set the directory options within your httpd.conf for the folder you want
to protect, e.g
<Directory "/var/www/html/mythweb">
Options all
AllowOverride All
AuthType Basic
AuthName "MyMythTvRealm"
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/mypasswdfile
Require user myusername otherusername
</Directory>
Your paths might vary from the above, I'm not familiar with where ubuntu
shoves stuff ...
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