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Brian
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 209
Location: Puyallup, WA USA
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 Posted: Wed 17 Jan '07 7:35 Post subject: htaccess alias directory question |
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Okay, what am I doing wrong here, I want to allow various users to place their .htaccess password files in a specific location such as:
x:/members/passwords/{member_id}/
In this example the .htaccess would look something like this:
| Code: | AuthName "Password Required for this directory:"
AuthUserFile ~passwords/Brian
AuthType Basic
Require user Brian
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from localhost
Satisfy Any |
This problem is, I thought that I could Alias the ~passwords to something like x:/members/passwords/.
Does this make sense?
In my Apache CONF file I insert this:
| Code: | ######## Alias for .htaccess ########
Alias ~passwords/ "x:/members/passwords/"
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When I review the error.log, I see it is looking in c:/~passwords... and not x:/members/passwords/Brian
I thought that this would point to x:/members/passwords/brian, or what ever username is in the .htaccess file.
What am I doing wrong here? |
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7294
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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| Posted: Wed 17 Jan '07 10:47 Post subject: |
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Hello Brian!
Your alias isn't correct. Your forgot the first slash
working is:
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Alias /~passwords/ "x:/members/passwords/"
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With that you will get an 403  do not forget to set location permissions in httpd.conf for x:/members/passwords/  |
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Brian
Joined: 21 Oct 2005
Posts: 209
Location: Puyallup, WA USA
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| Posted: Wed 17 Jan '07 16:07 Post subject: |
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Using the exact example you illustrated above James, I thought this would work as well but the resulting error is:
| Code: | | [Wed Jan 17 05:58:37 2007] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] (OS 3)The system cannot find the path specified. : Could not open password file: C:/~passwords/Brian/passwords, referer: http://www.someurl.com/members/pages/somescript.php |
So for some odd reason it is not trying to match /~passwords/. I will test on another server. I have a testing WAMP box I set up at work, I'll see what the results there are.
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Brian |
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James Blond
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Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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| Posted: Wed 17 Jan '07 16:35 Post subject: |
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| Hm, that confuses me! Beause I extra tested that before is posted that! |
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