how to write php in .htaccess of Apache?

Anon

Hi, anyone knows how to write php script inside a .htaccess file of Apache?

Anon

.htaccess is a configuration file, not an html document.

what exactly do you want to do with the htaccess file?

Anon

hi,
all i want to do is to have every member his own database with his own username and password, so that only hisself can access his own directory. but my membership creation is a web-based, so that i can't create the user's own password database by hand, so it must be done when a new user is created automatically.
are there any ways to do that?
thanks for ur help

Anon

So you want to use PHP to add users to a .htaccess file?

That is "easy" because you can use PHP to call the htpasswd program and add users to any .htaccess file you want.

Anon

yeah...I tried to use php to call htpasswd but it seemed didn't work by the script: exec("htpasswd -b -c /usr/local/apache/passwd/perry perry perry");

is that right? coz i did exactly the same in the shell and it worked in that way, only not in php script......please help....thanks a lot

Anon

You may have to be more specific about where php should find htpasswd.

exec("/where/is/htpasswd -b -c /usr/local/apache/passwd/perry perry perry");

Anon

no....it still didn't work....

Anon

what about not using htaccess and using both sessions (or cookies) and a table to store login& password ?

At loading, check that the user is the real one, if not show him a login prompt, made in php, if he gives the right couple (login/password), display the page, else use a header("Location: somewhere ") to hide the page....

This plus an apache configuration forbiding to see a directory index shall do ?