[geeks] Apache help

[Andrew Sydelko]

On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 09:29 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> Okay, I need to be able to do this:
>
> 1.  go to http://web.server.machine
> 2.  Have a login / password box pop up
> 3.  login, say as "user1", with user1's password
> 4.  Get redirected to http://server/users/user1 (or whatever directory 
> tree).
>
> Thoughts on the easiest way to do this?  MUST be password-protected, and
> *cannot* be normal UNIX users so I cant do /~user1.

Can't you just set up a password protected (.htaccess) cgi script
that does the redirect? The authenticated user is usually passed as part 
of the environment in apache. I think it's the REMOTE_USER variable.

--andy.