Re: Override Authentication for one sub directory

[Geoffrey Young]

Scott Alexander wrote:
Hi,

I'm using Apache-AuthCookie-3.04 for authentication
I have a protected directory with 10 sub directories, one directory needs
to be open to any user.
I could write 10 Directory /usr/local/systems/work/directory_1 or use a
PERL section in the conf file to create the 10 directory directives.
Can I override the settings for one directory somehow? So any user with no
login or password will get in. Actually I don't even want the login prompt
to appear.
we talk about this in the cookbook - recipe 13.5.

basically, you need to disable authentication for the directories in 
question.  see

http://www.modperlcookbook.org/code/ch13/Cookbook/PassLocalIP.pm

for the example from the book, which disables auth phases for allowed IPs.

also keep in mind the Satisfy Any directive, which is what you probably 
should use if you're thinking about IP based stuff :)

HTH

--Geoff

Re: Override Authentication for one sub directory

[Jean-Michel Hiver]

This might be a bit OT, but since I've read somewhere on apache.org that
Apache2 was using the same regex engine as Perl 5's...

So I'm under the impression that with Apache2 you could do something
like:

DirectoryMatch ^/usr/local/systems/works/(?!open/)
   # your auth handler goes here
/DirectoryMatch

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