Posted by Colin Fine on 10/29/06 18:11

Rik wrote:
> laredotornado@zipmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Based on some info on this newsgroup, I'm trying to password protect a
>> directory of both PHP, HTML, and image files. The web server is
>> Apache 2 and PHP is 4.4.4. I created this .htaccess file
>>
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^accesscontrol.php
>> RewriteRule ^(.*?)$ accesscontrol.php?file=$i&%{QUERY_STRING} [NC,L]
>
> Hey, I know that code from somewhere :-)
>
> It works here, be sure to start you're .htaccess with:
> RewriteEngine On
>
> Ans that mod_rewrite is offcourse enabled etc.
>
> And this:
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^accesscontrol.php
> should be:
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^accesscontrol\.php

This looks to me like a much more complicated solution than using
mod_auth_external.

Colin

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