Using .htaccess with PHP4

Anon

Please excuse the newbie question, but I don't find anything in the manual.

Can someone point me to good documentation for this subject or a bookthat covers it? I have Core PHP Programming by Atkinson but it doesn't mention the word.

Thanks,
Bill

Anon

well htaccess and php4 dont really have anything to do with each other - a htaccess file is normally used to protect and specify who and what can look at and do in a given directory on an apache server .

if you want to know what htaccess is all about - take a quick look here=> http://bruce-hamilton.com/tutorials/password.shtml

Anon

.htaccess is a litle more than that . One of the things that you can do is to set golobal variables for php .
Example:
php_value session.cookie_path /local/

you set the session.cookie_path variable.

I would sudgest you to look into php documenation for more details .

Anon

Hi,

I have developed a full-fledged php program which can do following things using .htaccess.

you can assimilate your existing registration system with the new system where all the userid and password(in encrypted format) will be written on a .htpasswd file which will be stored outside of webroot(hence will be out of reach of most hackers).
If you want you can restrict a directory viewing to registered users only. The prompt will be a nifty network permission window asking for userid and password.
When a users enters userid and password it will check from .htpasswd file and database also if needed.
After check it will give a well formatted
error message except of giving out a 401 error page if user does not exists.

The above code is for sale for US$100. Interested people can contact to pfeed@usa.net.

gregj

.htaccess is a functin of Apache, not php. Try looking at http://www.apache.org/

It really is a simple thing... I'm sure that you will have no problems once you read up on it.

Anon

I'd let you know how to do it, but the thing is that there is a tutorial on www.zend.com that deals with authentication using htaccess. Also check www.linuxguruz.org.