Apache

**honey bee** · 02-16-2008, 07:01 AM

Hello,

How can we make repositories in apache to store and authenticate credentials?.Is SSL with Apache used for this purpose?

**Outlaw** · 02-16-2008, 03:13 PM

You may want to look at htpasswd. SSL is just used to encrypt the http session.

**Sektion9** · 02-17-2008, 01:00 AM

Hello,

Authentication can be handled in a number of ways. .htpassword files for one if you have limited number of users. Other forms of authentication can be LDAP using mod_auth_ldap or even a SQL database being one of the OSS ones or MSSql. More specifics would allow us to better suggest a solution for you.

Regards,

-S9-

**countach44** · 02-19-2008, 12:48 AM

I'm not a huge fan of http authentication for numerous reasons. I think it's better done at application level (not webserver). One of my least favorite things is that apache stores the username and password in a session variable (even using mod_auth_ldap). Also, logging out is kinda opaque (you have to close your browser to ensure the session terminates)

**countach44** · 05-24-2008, 06:26 PM

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html

Would be a good place to start... I'm really bad at answering general questions like "tell me more about this" but if you're confused on a specific point, I'd be more than happy to try and help.

**Schotty** · 06-01-2008, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by countach44

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/auth.html

Would be a good place to start... I'm really bad at answering general questions like "tell me more about this" but if you're confused on a specific point, I'd be more than happy to try and help.

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