vlink="#000080" alink="#FF0000">
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- <h1 align="CENTER">Authentication</h1>
+ <h1 align="center">Authentication</h1>
<a id="__index__" name="__index__"></a> <!-- INDEX BEGIN -->
<ul>
<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
- <li><a href="#the prerequisites">The prerequisites</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#theprerequisites">The prerequisites</a></li>
- <li><a href="#getting it working">Getting it working</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#gettingitworking">Getting it working</a></li>
- <li><a href="#letting more than one person in">Letting more
+ <li><a href="#lettingmorethanonepersonin">Letting more
than one person in</a></li>
- <li><a href="#possible problems">Possible problems</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#possibleproblems">Possible problems</a></li>
- <li><a href="#what other neat stuff can i do">What other neat
+ <li><a href="#whatotherneatstuffcanido">What other neat
stuff can I do?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#more information">More information</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#moreinformation">More information</a></li>
</ul>
<!-- INDEX END -->
<hr />
<p>This article covers the "standard" way of protecting parts
of your web site that most of you are going to use.</p>
- <h2><a id="the prerequisites" name="the prerequisites">The
+ <h2><a id="theprerequisites" name="theprerequisites">The
prerequisites</a></h2>
<p>The directives discussed in this article will need to go
kept. This should not be terribly difficult, and I'll try to
make this clear when we come to that point.</p>
- <h2><a id="getting it working"
- name="getting it working">Getting it working</a></h2>
+ <h2><a id="gettingitworking"
+ name="gettingitworking">Getting it working</a></h2>
<p>Here's the basics of password protecting a directory on your
server.</p>
server. In the next section, we discuss various ways to use the
<code>require</code> directive.</p>
- <h2><a id="letting more than one person in"
- name="letting more than one person in">Letting more than one
+ <h2><a id="lettingmorethanonepersonin"
+ name="lettingmorethanonepersonin">Letting more than one
person in</a></h2>
<p>The directives above only let one person (specifically
files, and remember to reference th right one in the
<code>AuthUserFile</code> directive.</p>
- <h2><a id="possible problems" name="possible problems">Possible
+ <h2><a id="possibleproblems" name="possibleproblems">Possible
problems</a></h2>
<p>Because of the way that Basic authentication is specified,
get above a few hundred entries, and may wish to consider a
different authentication method at that time.</p>
- <h2><a id="what other neat stuff can i do"
- name="what other neat stuff can i do">What other neat stuff can
+ <h2><a id="whatotherneatstuffcanido"
+ name="whatotherneatstuffcanido">What other neat stuff can
I do?</a></h2>
<p>Authentication by username and password is only part of the
<p>The <code>allow</code> and <code>deny</code> directives let
you allow and deny access based on the host name, or host
- address, of the machine requesting a document. The directive
- goes hand-in-hand with these is the <code>order</code>
- directive, which tells Apache in which order to apply the
- filters.</p>
+ address, of the machine requesting a document. The
+ <code>order</code> directive goes hand-in-hand with these two,
+ and tells Apache in which order to apply the filters.</p>
<p>The usage of these directives is:</p>
<pre>
<p>where <em>address</em> is an IP address (or a partial IP
address) or a fully qualified domain name (or a partial domain
- name).</p>
+ name); you may provide multiple addresses or domain names, if
+ desired.</p>
<p>For example, if you have someone spamming your message
board, and you want to keep them out, you could do the
</pre>
<p>Visitors coming from that address will not be able to see
- the content behind this directive. If, instead, you have a
+ the content covered by this directive. If, instead, you have a
machine name, rather than an IP address, you can use that.</p>
<pre>
deny from host.example.com
you can specify just part of an address or domain name:</p>
<pre>
deny from 192.101.205
- deny from cyberthugs.com
+ deny from cyberthugs.com moreidiots.com
deny from ke
</pre>
addition to letting everyone in. What you want is to let
<em>only</em> those folks in.</p>
- <h2><a id="more information" name="more information">More
+ <h2><a id="moreinformation" name="moreinformation">More
information</a></h2>
<p>You should also read the documentation for <code><a
vlink="#000080" alink="#FF0000">
<!--#include virtual="header.html" -->
- <h1 align="CENTER">Authentication</h1>
+ <h1 align="center">Authentication</h1>
<a id="__index__" name="__index__"></a> <!-- INDEX BEGIN -->
<ul>
<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
- <li><a href="#the prerequisites">The prerequisites</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#theprerequisites">The prerequisites</a></li>
- <li><a href="#getting it working">Getting it working</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#gettingitworking">Getting it working</a></li>
- <li><a href="#letting more than one person in">Letting more
+ <li><a href="#lettingmorethanonepersonin">Letting more
than one person in</a></li>
- <li><a href="#possible problems">Possible problems</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#possibleproblems">Possible problems</a></li>
- <li><a href="#what other neat stuff can i do">What other neat
+ <li><a href="#whatotherneatstuffcanido">What other neat
stuff can I do?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#more information">More information</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#moreinformation">More information</a></li>
</ul>
<!-- INDEX END -->
<hr />
<p>This article covers the "standard" way of protecting parts
of your web site that most of you are going to use.</p>
- <h2><a id="the prerequisites" name="the prerequisites">The
+ <h2><a id="theprerequisites" name="theprerequisites">The
prerequisites</a></h2>
<p>The directives discussed in this article will need to go
kept. This should not be terribly difficult, and I'll try to
make this clear when we come to that point.</p>
- <h2><a id="getting it working"
- name="getting it working">Getting it working</a></h2>
+ <h2><a id="gettingitworking"
+ name="gettingitworking">Getting it working</a></h2>
<p>Here's the basics of password protecting a directory on your
server.</p>
server. In the next section, we discuss various ways to use the
<code>require</code> directive.</p>
- <h2><a id="letting more than one person in"
- name="letting more than one person in">Letting more than one
+ <h2><a id="lettingmorethanonepersonin"
+ name="lettingmorethanonepersonin">Letting more than one
person in</a></h2>
<p>The directives above only let one person (specifically
files, and remember to reference th right one in the
<code>AuthUserFile</code> directive.</p>
- <h2><a id="possible problems" name="possible problems">Possible
+ <h2><a id="possibleproblems" name="possibleproblems">Possible
problems</a></h2>
<p>Because of the way that Basic authentication is specified,
get above a few hundred entries, and may wish to consider a
different authentication method at that time.</p>
- <h2><a id="what other neat stuff can i do"
- name="what other neat stuff can i do">What other neat stuff can
+ <h2><a id="whatotherneatstuffcanido"
+ name="whatotherneatstuffcanido">What other neat stuff can
I do?</a></h2>
<p>Authentication by username and password is only part of the
<p>The <code>allow</code> and <code>deny</code> directives let
you allow and deny access based on the host name, or host
- address, of the machine requesting a document. The directive
- goes hand-in-hand with these is the <code>order</code>
- directive, which tells Apache in which order to apply the
- filters.</p>
+ address, of the machine requesting a document. The
+ <code>order</code> directive goes hand-in-hand with these two,
+ and tells Apache in which order to apply the filters.</p>
<p>The usage of these directives is:</p>
<pre>
<p>where <em>address</em> is an IP address (or a partial IP
address) or a fully qualified domain name (or a partial domain
- name).</p>
+ name); you may provide multiple addresses or domain names, if
+ desired.</p>
<p>For example, if you have someone spamming your message
board, and you want to keep them out, you could do the
</pre>
<p>Visitors coming from that address will not be able to see
- the content behind this directive. If, instead, you have a
+ the content covered by this directive. If, instead, you have a
machine name, rather than an IP address, you can use that.</p>
<pre>
deny from host.example.com
you can specify just part of an address or domain name:</p>
<pre>
deny from 192.101.205
- deny from cyberthugs.com
+ deny from cyberthugs.com moreidiots.com
deny from ke
</pre>
addition to letting everyone in. What you want is to let
<em>only</em> those folks in.</p>
- <h2><a id="more information" name="more information">More
+ <h2><a id="moreinformation" name="moreinformation">More
information</a></h2>
<p>You should also read the documentation for <code><a
projects / apache / commitdiff