Need htaccess help!

[WebTitan]

i have a directory that i need to protect, BUT have multiple password files that will give access to that directory. basicly a chat board for members of multiple websites so it needs to consult multiple password files for access.

anyone know if this can be done?

[WebTitan]

bump for some help ;)

[WebTitan]

aw come on...no body can help a brutha out?

[directfiesta]

Normally, it is the other way around :

4 or 5 sites sharing the same password file thru their respective .htaccess file...

Search, there must be a solution ... I have no time to do that search .. sorry.

[Randyyy]

bump for u man, takes a while to get responses

[mortenb]

are the websites on the same server? or in the same datacenter?

[WebTitan]

Normally, it is the other way around :

4 or 5 sites sharing the same password file thru their respective .htaccess file...

Search, there must be a solution ... I have no time to do that search .. sorry.

yeah, i spent a lot of last night searching with no luck so thought with the wealth of knowledge on this board, maybe someone here might have an answer ;)

[WebTitan]

are the websites on the same server? or in the same datacenter?

yes, same server. couple of different drives, but same physical machine

[mortenb]

Then the easiest way would be to join all the htpasswd files into a new one for the forum. You could have a cronjob doing it every few minutes to keep the new file updated.

Something like "cat passfile1 passfile2 passfile3 passfile4 > newpassfile" and then have the htaccess for the forum point to newpassfile

[WebTitan]

Then the easiest way would be to join all the htpasswd files into a new one for the forum. You could have a cronjob doing it every few minutes to keep the new file updated.

Something like "cat passfile1 passfile2 passfile3 passfile4 > newpassfile" and then have the htaccess for the forum point to newpassfile

might give this a try...any chance you know of a tutorial for something like this?

[directfiesta]

might give this a try...any chance you know of a tutorial for something like this?

for the cron job, if this could work, you can use rsync to keep the files " synced " ...

[mortenb]

might give this a try...any chance you know of a tutorial for something like this?

I don't know of any tutorials, but whoever does your coding for you should be able to set it up for you in less than 10 minutes.. It's pretty simple..

[WebTitan]

cool. thanks for the help guys! I really appreciate it

[mortenb]

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[WebTitan]

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[Way3]

I don't know if these will help you, but I thought I'd pass them along:

.htaccess tutorial
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/

.htaccess file generator
http://cooletips.de/htaccess/

Hope it helps you. Best of Luck!