2 servers based on .htaccess authentication

2000-11-29 Thread wald
We are finally planning to "do the right thing" and have a light weight and heavy weight server. Our problem is that our (immediate) users set up the protections for each directory with .htaccess files - and they use PerlAuthzHandler and PerlAuthenHandlers - so to decide if a file can be

Re: 2 servers based on .htaccess authentication

2000-11-29 Thread Paul Lindner
If you are using shared repositories for the front-end and heavy server you can modify the filename used for .htaccess in the apache config file. (See the AccessFileName entry) So, you could put the config for the heavy server in .htaccess_heavy and the front-end config in .htaccess. On Wed,

Re: 2 servers based on .htaccess authentication

2000-11-29 Thread Robert Waldstein
So, you could put the config for the heavy server in .htaccess_heavy and the front-end config in .htaccess. Sorry - didn't make myself clear. The protection on the files are the same - just too complex for the front-end to understand (since use modperl). So if there is any authentication

Re: 2 servers based on .htaccess authentication

2000-11-29 Thread Ken Williams
Or if you want to share some directives but not others, you can use IfModule mod_perl.c or IfDefined SomeSymbol sections to block one server from reading those portions of the config files. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lindner) wrote: If you are using shared repositories for the front-end and heavy

Re: 2 servers based on .htaccess authentication

2000-11-29 Thread Robert Waldstein
As long as you can garantee that the URI of the resource is not accessible multiple ways you could use a Location/ directive on the relative path. Trouble with this is my problem arises out of a (deliberate) lack of central control. That is, I have thousands of directories, and the web