Need htaccess help!
 

i have a directory that i need to protect, BUT have multiple password files that will give access to that directory. basicly a chat board for members of multiple websites so it needs to consult multiple password files for access.

anyone know if this can be done?

bump for some help ;)

aw come on...no body can help a brutha out?

Normally, it is the other way around :

4 or 5 sites sharing the same password file thru their respective .htaccess file...

Search, there must be a solution ... I have no time to do that search .. sorry.

bump for u man, takes a while to get responses

are the websites on the same server? or in the same datacenter?

yeah, i spent a lot of last night searching with no luck so thought with the wealth of knowledge on this board, maybe someone here might have an answer ;)

yes, same server. couple of different drives, but same physical machine

Then the easiest way would be to join all the htpasswd files into a new one for the forum. You could have a cronjob doing it every few minutes to keep the new file updated.

Something like "cat passfile1 passfile2 passfile3 passfile4 > newpassfile" and then have the htaccess for the forum point to newpassfile

might give this a try...any chance you know of a tutorial for something like this?

for the cron job, if this could work, you can use rsync to keep the files " synced " ...

I don't know of any tutorials, but whoever does your coding for you should be able to set it up for you in less than 10 minutes.. It's pretty simple..

cool. thanks for the help guys! I really appreciate it

Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my.... :1orglaugh

ok Don Corlone...:1orglaugh

I don't know if these will help you, but I thought I'd pass them along:

.htaccess tutorial
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/

.htaccess file generator
http://cooletips.de/htaccess/

Hope it helps you. Best of Luck! :)