htaccess question.
 

hi,

Does anyone one know if there is a way to make one .htacess file check 2 htpasswd files?

So that it checks one htpasswd for a user and pass and if it's not there it checks the second htpasswd file.

I found a previous thread on this, but there was no conclusive answer, someone mentioned it was possible but did not explain how to do it.

ok thanks for reading.

Not possible :( Sorry!

jDoG

ok thanks for the answer.

It saved me hours of searching on google and forums.

cheers.

We get around it by running a cron script every minute that joins two or more password files into one. Achieves the same thing.


Cheers,
Dave.

or you could make your own custom auth module in C or mod_perl

heres a freebee mod_perl for what you want that should work with apache2 and mod_perl 1.99

MemberAuth.pm
<code>
package Apache::MemberAuth;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Apache::Access ();
use Apache::RequestUtil ();
use Apache::RequestRec ();
use Apache::Connection ();
use APR::SockAddr;

use ModPerl::Util ();
use Apache::RequestIO ();
use Apache::Server ();
use Apache::ServerUtil ();
use APR::Table ();

use Apache::Const -compile => qw(OK DECLINED HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED HTTP_NOT_FOUND);


sub handler
{
my $r = shift;

my $pw_file = $r->dir_config("AuthUserFile1");
my $username = $r->user();
my $user = Apache->request->user();

my ($status, $password) = $r->get_basic_auth_pw;
my $file_db_enc_pass = get_file_pass($user, $pw_file);
if($file_db_enc_pass)
{
my $seed = substr($file_db_enc_pass, 0, 2);
my $crypt_pass = crypt($password, $seed);
my $status = 0;
if($file_db_enc_pass eq $crypt_pass)
{
return Apache::OK;
}
else
{
$pw_file = $r->dir_config("AuthUserFile2");
$file_db_enc_pass = get_file_pass($user, $pw_file);
if($file_db_enc_pass)
{
my $seed = substr($file_db_enc_pass, 0, 2);
my $crypt_pass = crypt($password, $seed);
my $status = 0;
if($file_db_enc_pass eq $crypt_pass)
{
return Apache::OK;
}
else
{

$r->note_basic_auth_failure;
return Apache::HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED;
}
}
}

}

$r->note_basic_auth_failure;
return Apache::HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED;
}

sub get_file_pass($$)
{
my($user, $pw_file) = @_;
$user = Apache->request->user();
if(!$user)
{
$user = '';
}
open(FILE, "<$pw_file") || die $!;
while(<FILE>)
{
chomp();
my($u, $p) = split(/:/, $_, 2);
if($u eq $user)
{
close FILE;
return $p;
}
}
return undef;
}

1;

</code>
in httpd.conf do

PerlOptions +GlobalRequest +SetupEnv +Authen +Access +Authz

PerlAuthenHandler Apache::MemberAuth
PerlSetVar AuthUserFile1 /passwords/.htpasswd
PerlSetVar AuthUserFile2 /passwords/.htpasswd2
AuthName "protected"
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user

By default, you cannot make .htaccess do this. However, I saw a while back that Pay Site Power Tools was offering a "Multi Mod Auth" which is exactly what your lookng for.


http://www.paysitepowertools.com/

http://www.paysitepowertools.com/os-mma.html

Thanks to everyone who replied, thats awesome.
cheers.