Re: using php to accesss .htaccess protected directories

raj wrote:
Hi mango,

I have some resources (blog, forum, wiki) inside a password protected directory using .htaccess.

I don't want to give out the master username and password to the directory, and I don't want to setup .htaccess with one username and password per user. I have a database of users and want to write a script so that once the users have logged in they can access the protected directory.

Any advice?

Yes. Put all the data on those pages in a database, and use a different name/password system to manage them.



Thank you in advance,

Raj

On 2008-03-02 20:00:48 +0000, Mango <mango@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Hi Raj,

I'm not quite sure what you're asking. Are you trying to create your own login screen, rather than using the default? If so, I don't believe that is possible, at least not with .htaccess protection.

John's solutions for getting the contents of a protected page using PHP will work, but I take it that's not what you're trying to do?

Mango



raj wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply. I actually have a website with some of the php/html pages protected by htaccess (username and password). I was wondering is there any way to input the username and password once using a php script so that I can then access that part f the website too?

Thank you in advance.

Raj


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