Re: GLUG: Apache Authentication

[Neil Thompson <abraxis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Neil

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Neil Fryer wrote:

> Okay, I've asked this question before, and no-one was able to help me out, so
> I'm hoping that now, with more people on this list, and it being a new year and
> all that, that someone will be able to help.
> I have a webserver, running apache, on this webserver is our intranet site,
> this server is at present accessible from both our LAN, and from the www, now
> what I want to do is make this more secure, by allowing all people on our LAN
> access to this intranet site, while prompting all people from outside our
> intranet for a username and passwd. Does anyone know how I can accomplish this,
> as so far, all that I've manged to do is have it prompting for a passwd from
> both sides, which is not what I want.

<UNTESTED> Looking through the documentation, it seems as though you could
use the mod_access directive "allow from host ..." in your .htaccess file
together with the mod_auth directives.  At a guess (and I'm no expert) if
you put the "allow from host/range" stuff before the auth stuff you should
get what you want </UNTESTED>

Cheers! (Relax...have a homebrew)

Neil