I always write my own authentication scripts in PHP using PHP's built in session management. If you want to protect entire directories or sites, just add the authentication routine to your auto_prepend file and it will work for any page you are trying to authenticate.
If set up correctly it works really well, because a user can enter the site from any page (perhaps from a bookmark) and if they are not logged in they will get a login prompt and once logged in will go directly to whatever page they were trying to access. Furthermore, if you write your own authentication script for use in auto_prepended files, you can use it with little or no modification on any site you desire. Fred Jeff Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Thanks for the suggestion, but no, it was something else. What else it > was, I don't know. I took the plunge and did the "when in doubt, > upgrade" route -- the server is now: > > Apache/1.3.22 -- AuthMySQL/2.30 -- PHP/4.0.6 -- mod_ssl/2.8.5 -- > OpenSSL/0.9.6b > > Now, 24 hr. of straight work upgrading, the problem has gone away. I > don't know which of these programs had which bug, but I did nothing > other than upgrade, albeit a 24-hr task due to the AuthMySQL issues. > > Which now prompts the question, perhaps delusional from lack of sleep, > if hardly anyone is using mod_auth_mysql, as seems to be the case, what > is everyone using to authenticate access? -- especially for larger sites > (I have 70K+ pages). > > Regards, > > Jeff Hill > > > Richard Lynch wrote: > > > > Jeff Hill wrote: > > > > > AddType application/x-httpd-php html > > > > > > All users who enter any subdirectory with a .htaccess authentication > > > requirement get a 401 error instead of the pop-up authentication request > > > they should get (I use authmysql). The same thing happens if I try > > > changing my Apache httpd.conf from: > > > > Wild Guess: > > My first guess would be that the version of MySQL you used with authmysql > > and the version of MySQL you compiled into Apache are not matching up, and > > end up tromping on each other somehow. > > > > If you still have the source directories, check the config.log files or > > whatever to see what versions of MySQL got compiled into each package. > > > > -- > > Like music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues ------ > http://www.hronline.com - Ph:416-604-7251 - Fax:416-604-4708 > ------------------------------------------------------------ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
