single login form, multiple clients

taff posted this at 13:13 — 14th February 2002.

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Hi all.

I have multiple client folders that are each password protected via htaccess. What I would like to have is one client login box that would go to the appropriate folder based upon user/pw submitted. This is all over the web so I'm sure that it is pretty straightforward. I'm just a bonehead when it comes to scripting. I have PHP at my disposal for this.

Any tips?

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Wil posted this at 14:14 — 15th February 2002.

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Hi Taff

Yes, this can be done. What you're thinking is a login box on a static page, send the request to the browser then transfer you to the directory based on your login without going through the server-side basic auth of .htaccess etc.?

Hm, you'd then require a script that could check and pass your htaccess credentials to the webserver before letting you in.

I'm sure this can be done using Perl and a module off CPAN. I'll take a look and get back to you.

- wil

taff posted this at 12:11 — 20th February 2002.

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Dang, I fell of the page!

Quote: Originally posted by Wil
What you're thinking is a login box on a static page, send the request to the browser then transfer you to the directory based on your login without going through the server-side basic auth of .htaccess etc.?

Wil,

ummm. yeah.. I think

I don't even care if the login box is "in page" or if it is the standard "Enter Network Password" popup, although I would prefer the former. I just want one "Client Login" with multiple destinations based on the user/password

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Wil posted this at 13:36 — 20th February 2002.

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How are they currently authenticated? .htpasswd? Would you mind if this was changed?

taff posted this at 17:51 — 20th February 2002.

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Yes, currently htpassword but I'm not married to it. I do like to global aspect for myself and my developers though. Not sure how that would be affected by what we're discussing though - I guess I'd have to whip up some sort of developers console...

Maybe this is more trouble than it's worth for the time being. We are talking about ongoing access for less than 6 clients at a time although I'd like to see that grow down the road (wouldn't we all? )

By the way, the page I'm referring to is at:
sitesunseen.com/clients.html

As you'll see, I have links for each individual client (4 at the moment) leading to a htpassword protected folder for each. This is what I thought might look better as a single "client login" box.

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Wil posted this at 10:22 — 22nd February 2002.

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Hi Taff

I'm preety sure one of the following programs will accomodate your needs:

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_and_Scripts/Perl/Password_Protection/

Let me know if you find something there you like. I'd personally go with the lightweight option, as you don't need the complexity of a database or anything like that.

- wil