[geeks] Apache help

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, 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.

.htaccess, and a CGI as the default page?  Just use the REMOTE_USER
environment variable to determine who authenticated.

--Jonathan