Ed,

When you do auth with mysql and they succeed then u can set the
$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and in theory that should allow you to connect
to the directory because that should be set for apache http
authentication.

You might have to play with it, but i am sure you can get it to work.


On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 16:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  I'm now understanding how you can get PHP to present you with a username
> and password promt just like APache would do if you had a .htaccess file
> in the directory you were trying to enter. Great idea but it seems that it
> would be easier to just use the .htaccess file in the directory.
> 
>  What I've been trying to find out is how to pass through a .htaccess file
> if someone has already passed an database authentication lookup in PHP.
> 
> I have an area on my site "Special Publications" where users login and
> their username and password is checked against a MySQL database. One field
> in their user records is the URL to their directory on our server. Each
> one of these directories is protected via .htaccess. What I would really
> like to do is have them redirected to their URL if they pass
> authentication and not have them enter their username and password again.
> Is their a way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed
>  
> 
> 
> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Ewout de Boer wrote:
> 
> > in httpd.conf
> > 
> > <Directory /scriptdir>
> >     AllowOverride AuthConfig
> > </Directory>
> > 
> > 
> > More info at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#allowoverride
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Ewout
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Alexander Bemme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:02 PM
> > Subject: [PHP] PHP Auth with Apache
> > 
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > i got a little problem (i hope so)
> > > 
> > > I have installed Apache 1.3.26 and PHP 4.2.3 as module.
> > > 
> > > I used the example from www.php.net to do a PHP authentication,
> > > but it didn't work, the pop appears but i can't login.
> > > 
> > > In PHPManual is someting about "AuthType" but nothing about how
> > > to fix it.
> > > 
> > > Can someone help out?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > --Alex
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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