Bart,
The Oracle Application Server is capable of handling authentication at
sub-URL level, i.e. at the package level.
Jay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart Cassady [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 9:39 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: off topic Apache query
>
> Maybe Apache does not allow this. ie. Once you are authenticated at a
> higher level, Apache ignores the need to authenticate at a lower level.
> You would already be authenticated at the higher level, so why do you need
> to authenticate again? The question is rhetorical. I know that their are
> many reasons. I've struggled with this on Netscape Enterprise Server,
> which doesn't deal with this problem very well either.
>
> It would be nice if web servers would handle authentication at sub-URLs
> off the same document root. Can anyone comment on this? Are there web
> servers out their that do this?
>
> Anyway, good luck.
>
> Bart Cassady
> Database Analyst
> Corporate Technology Services
> Associated Engineering Group Ltd.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >>> alok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/09 3:09 AM >>>
> Hi Tim,
>
> mod_auth is not loaded in my apache's httpd.conf.Is it necessary for
> server to
> implement authentications?
> The Apache is already running a company intranet on one of its virtual
> hosts
> and it asks for user name and password when anybody requests that intranet
> URL.So I already have the user name and password authentication scheme
> running
> on the index page of the intranet.
> What I want now is that when the visitor goes to a specific sub directory
> in
> the intranet then also the server should authenticate the user.
>
>
> Thanx
> Alok
>
> Tim Stoop wrote:
>
> > Check if mod_auth is loaded is httpd.conf
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: alok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 10:09 AM
> > Subject: off topic Apache query
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Can anybody tell me how to password protect a sub directory in Apache.
> > > I have tried making .htaccess but somehow things did not work out.So
> I
> > > removed .htaccess and Alternatively,
> > > I tried editing httpd.conf and added a <Directory> tag in it.The
> script
> > > I added in httpd.conf is as follows
> > >
> > > <Directory /usr/local/apache/Main Directory/Sub-Directory to be
> password
> > > protected>
> > > AllowOverride None
> > > AuthType Basic
> > > AuthUserFile "any validation file"
> > > require valid-user
> > > </Directory>
> > >
> > > But this too does not work.Plz suggest.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanx in anticipation,
> > >
> > > Alok.
> > >
> > >
> >
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