Auto-creating .htaccess logins?

Radon3k

I have a registration script on my site but instead of them logging in via a form, is it possible that when they create the account that it updates the *.htaccess and then prompts them with the standard .htaccess login popup. Is this possible? If so, how? Thanks.

tsinka

That's rather difficult especially if your site is on a shared host. But if you have the user data in a mysql table then you can do http authentication with PHP (running as apache module, alternatively use e.g. the mod_auth_mysql apache module).

Radon3k

Thanks, I took a look at that and it appears to be what I want however I'm not sure how to proceed. The username and password (which is hashed in MD5) is stored in a MySQL database, how would I go about authenticating what they type into the box to what's in the database? Thanks. 🙂

tsinka

There's a chapter (with basic examples) in the manual.

So basically fetch the submitted data and try to match it against the user table. PHP and MySQL both support md5.

Thomas