password help

prescher

Hi, I've found a PHP script to password protect a page and can not remember where I found it. It has no credit to it. Anyway. It does not work and I'm wandering if anybody can tell me what to change to make it work.

<?php
$LOGIN = "login";
$PASSWORD = "password";
function error ($error_message) {
echo $error_message."<BR>";
exit;
}
if ( (!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER)) || ! (($PHP_AUTH_USER == $LOGIN) && ( $PHP_AUTH_PW == "$PASSWORD" )) ) {
header("www-Authenticate: Basic entry=\"index\"");
error("Unauthorized access...");
}
?>
<HTML>
<HEAD>

</HEAD>
<BODY>
This is where my home page would normally go.....
</BODY>
</HTML>

drew010

most likely the php install where you are running it is installed as a cgi, not an apache module. if thats the case, there is nothing that can be done to that script to make it work, you will have to come up with another method to protect pages.

or if register_globals is turned off in your php.ini and php IS running as an apache module, you may want to try $SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'], $SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] instead of what is there