[users@httpd] password protect files

[Michael Simpson <Mi...@Express.co.uk>]

Hello.

I'm using Apache 2 and can password protect a directory with no problem.
However, I need to password protect just 1 file within a directory, not the
whole directory.

I've searched the web and Apache's website but found nothing re: just files
(only directories).

I do the authentification from within the conf file (not a seperate
.htaccess file).

Can someone tell me what's the obvious error below:

Alias /library "C:/xxx/yyy/zzz/admin.html"

  <Files "C:/xxx/yyy/zzz/admin.html">
        AuthType Basic
	AuthName "LIBRARY STAFF ONLY"
	AuthUserFile "C:/Apache2/<dir>/<filename>"
	Require user <user>
  </Files>


The following works for protecting a directory:

Alias /library "C:/xxx/yyy/zzz"

  <Directory "C:/xxx/yyy/zzz">
        AuthType Basic
	AuthName "LIBRARY STAFF ONLY"
	AuthUserFile "C:/Apache2/<dir>/<filename>"
	Require user <user>
  </Directory>

Thanks in advance.

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Re: [users@httpd] password protect files

[Joshua Slive <js...@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 14:40:57 +0100, Michael Simpson
<mi...@express.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm using Apache 2 and can password protect a directory with no problem.
> However, I need to password protect just 1 file within a directory, not the
> whole directory.
> 
> I've searched the web and Apache's website but found nothing re: just files
> (only directories).

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/sections.html#file-and-web
where you will find that the <Files> container takes a filename, not a
full path, but that it can be nested in a <directory> container to get
the effect that you want.

Joshua.

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