Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

[Phil Ewels]

Ah, so this is what I initially thought, but the problem with that is my 
installation of Mailman - it is a central installation which serves 
lists to a whole range of different domains, so putting a .htaccess 
restriction in the archives folder would then stop access to the 
archives for all of my other websites.



Mark Sapiro wrote:
Phil Ewels wrote:

So everyone will be using the same login details for the .htaccess 
protection (it's a fairly small group of users who need to access these 
pages, who all trust each other and having one login for all saves a lot 
of hassle). So no dynamic modification needed (if I understand you 
correctly).


Then I don't understand what "I was thinking I could get around this by
using a script to automate a log in to the archives and then scraping
the results back to my .htaccess protected folder." means.

Unless, maybe it means that the .htaccess only allows access by IP and
you'd be updating that.


Users will be subscribed to a maximum of four lists, but I'd like them 
to be able to browse the archives of all of them. In other words, have 
the mailing lists behave as if they have public archive access, but 
behind a .htaccess wall to prevent Joe Bloggs from reading the lists.


So just have public archives and put the .htaccess in either
/path/to/mailman/archives/private/ or
/path/to/mailman/archives/public/ - either one should do it as long as
you have AllowOverride explicitly or implicitly on the directory.

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