Using .htaccess files in the Mac OS X webserver

These directions may be out of date but hopefully a good guide. Also check out SFU CAS setup for MAC and SFU's access control page.

First you need to turn on .htaccess in the htconf file inApache- in Leopard that file is in /private/etc/apache2/ and in Tiger it is in /private/etc/httpd/

To enable .htaccess files edit your .htconf file(s). I go into terminal and type
open private/etc/apache2/
And edit httpd.conf with textwrangler, changing
AllowOverride None
to AllowOverride All

This works for the .htaccess file (which should be in the directory you want to protect):

order allow,deny
allow from .sfu.ca
# deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.9
satisfy any
#
AuthUserFile /Library/WebServer/Documents/restricted/.htpasswd
AuthName "Private"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

Note you can list the users from the .htpasswd file rather then using all the users- thus you need only have one .htpasswd file.

To create the .htpasswd file type this in terminal (in the directory you want the .htpasswd file):

htpasswd -c .htpasswd user1

It will ask you to enter the password twice. To add users to an existing .htpasswd file omit the -c (create).

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/01/29/apache_macosx_four.html?page=last.

http://www.clagnut.com/blog/350/

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