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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Grant Cooper <gr...@nucleus.com> on 2002/09/01 21:31:50 UTC
[users@httpd] password protect a directory
This is new to me. I currently am using apache 1.3, mod_php, mod_perl. I
just installed phpMyAdmin for mysql and trying to secure it. I was told to
password protect the directory. Where should I start?
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Re: [users@httpd] Is mod_rewrite the solution for this...?
Posted by Hans Juergen von Lengerke <le...@sixt.de>.
dale's stuff <st...@colony.net> on Sep 4, 2002:
> > RewriteRule ^/members/(([^/]{2})[^/]*)/(.*)$ /members/$2/$1/$3
>
> If I understand this correctly, (I have never used mod_rewrite) this is
> looking in the members folder, getting the first 2 charactors after the /
> then re-writing that to /members/$2 (this is the leading 2 charactors of
> the nickname) /$1 (where this is the nickname value) and $3 ? this is
> anything after the trailing / after the nickname.
>
> Is that correct?
Yes, that is more or less correct. The pattern (the first argument to
RewriteRule) says in English:
^ # If a requested URL starts with
/members/ # the string "/members/"
( # [start storing matches in $1]
( # [start storing matches in $2]
[^/]{2} # match two chars that aren't a "/"
) # [end storing matches in $2]
[^/]* # match any chars that aren't a "/"
) # [end storing matches in $1]
/ # followed by a "/"
( # [start storing matches in $3]
.* # any number of any chars
) # [end storing matches in $3]
$ # up to the end of the URL
Check out any tuturials/guides on the web on "Regular Expressions".
Another good resource is Jeffrey Friedls "Mastering Regular Expressions"
from O'Reilly.
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Re: [users@httpd] Is mod_rewrite the solution for this...?
Posted by dale's stuff <st...@colony.net>.
Hello,
Thank you for the reply and sorry for any confusion on what I am trying to
do.
Currently a profile link is styled as:
domain.com/members/details.html?id=3434525252434523
I wish to change this to
domain.com/members/nickname/
on the server the nickname directory would be stored as
/members/ni/nickname/
The reason for this is the current 15,000 directories I need to create with
growth expected to triple soon. I did not want that many directories all in
one master directory. I felt that by splitting them up this way it makes it
easier on the OS (Linux) and makes it easier if I need to place some of
these folders on another drive.
Creating the directories is not a problem with the server side tool I am
already using. I could serve them this was as well, but one of the other
ideas is to cut down on the number of database queries on the server. I
will be writing out static pages to these folders as well.
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 04:53 PM, Hans Juergen von Lengerke
wrote:
> dale's stuff <st...@colony.net> on Sep 4, 2002:
>
>> An example would be - domain.com/members/greybear/ where I think I should
>> create a folder named ./members/gr/greybear/
>
> I'm not entirely sure I understand what you want but maybe this is it:
>
> RewriteRule ^/members/(([^/]{2})[^/]*)/(.*)$ /members/$2/$1/$3
If I understand this correctly, (I have never used mod_rewrite) this is
looking in the members folder, getting the first 2 charactors after the /
then re-writing that to /members/$2 (this is the leading 2 charactors of
the nickname) /$1 (where this is the nickname value) and $3 ? this is
anything after the trailing / after the nickname.
Is that correct?
> This will work for all users with userids of at least 2 characters
> length.
>
> Regards, Hans
Thanks
Dale
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Re: [users@httpd] Is mod_rewrite the solution for this...?
Posted by Hans Juergen von Lengerke <le...@sixt.de>.
dale's stuff <st...@colony.net> on Sep 4, 2002:
> An example would be - domain.com/members/greybear/ where I think I should
> create a folder named ./members/gr/greybear/
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you want but maybe this is it:
RewriteRule ^/members/(([^/]{2})[^/]*)/(.*)$ /members/$2/$1/$3
This will work for all users with userids of at least 2 characters
length.
Regards, Hans
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[users@httpd] Is mod_rewrite the solution for this...?
Posted by dale's stuff <st...@colony.net>.
Hello,
Apache 1.3x on RH Linux 7.2
I have a website with user profile pages that are served from a database. I
wish to change this around a bit so that instead of having a longer url
with numbers in it the URL will be styled domain.com/members/nickname/
I am getting the member names all unique in the database, and while I could
create directories in the members directory for each user, I currently have
about 15,000 users and expect to grow to even higher numbers as I implement
various improvements.
I can use my existing tool to say grab the first 1 or 2 letters of the
nickname to create a directory under ./members/ but then I would need to
somehow have another process on the server see the url and point to the
proper place. I can do this with my existing server side tool, but I am
thinking that accomplishing this in the webserver will probably be faster.
An example would be - domain.com/members/greybear/ where I think I should
create a folder named ./members/gr/greybear/
Does the above make sense or am I looking to the wrong place to accomplish
this?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Dale
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Re: [users@httpd] password protect a directory
Posted by Robert <ro...@iremote.com>.
Grant:
I don't know phpMyAdmin at all, but from the little I know about it you
would want standard HTTP basic auth to authenticate the access to a
certain directory on the server. You should read the docs at...
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html#basic
This should tell you what you want to know.
~ Robert
Grant Cooper wrote:
> This is new to me. I currently am using apache 1.3, mod_php, mod_perl. I
> just installed phpMyAdmin for mysql and trying to secure it. I was told to
> password protect the directory. Where should I start?
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] password protect a directory
Posted by Matthew Daubenspeck <ma...@oddprocess.org>.
On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 01:31:50PM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote:
> This is new to me. I currently am using apache 1.3, mod_php, mod_perl. I
> just installed phpMyAdmin for mysql and trying to secure it. I was told to
> password protect the directory. Where should I start?
Look up .htpasswd
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RE: [users@httpd] password protect a directory
Posted by Koen Vingerhoets <ko...@ubench.com>.
Hi,
if you want to protect it in MySQL:
log in, go to your domain, you'll see a tab directories.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Koen Vingerhoets
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Subject: [users@httpd] password protect a directory
This is new to me. I currently am using apache 1.3, mod_php, mod_perl. I
just installed phpMyAdmin for mysql and trying to secure it. I was told to
password protect the directory. Where should I start?
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