Password protecting pages (.htaccess)

fernandopolania · Aug 25th, 2007, 14:19

Hi,
Don't know if this is the right catagory for this. I use .htaccess to protect different pages within one of my sites. The site has two different passwords for different areas. The problem is when visitors go from one password protected page to another the have to enter the passwords every time. Is there a way to set passwords to work for the whole session while they are on the site? Please help. Thank you in advance.

Fernando Polania
www.myunitwebsite.com

alexgeek · Aug 26th, 2007, 01:35

hmm a lot of sites do not recommend .htaccess for password protecting, something about insecurity I think.
are you willing to try another method? like php sessions?

fernandopolania · Aug 26th, 2007, 15:29

Thanks. I am not familiar with PHP. can you recommend any resources?

alexgeek · Aug 26th, 2007, 16:19

I like w3schools and tizag tutorials.
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.tizag.com/

alexgeek · Aug 26th, 2007, 16:20

Uhh I think that was another bug, I pressed reply it once.

Marc · Oct 24th, 2007, 07:45

Alex, if you go into EDIT then it should have an option to delete post.... If not, try it again.. Usually works

Marc · Oct 24th, 2007, 07:52

Hmm.. How come you are posting on the 26 august, Alex... Its only the 24th.

Daniel · Oct 24th, 2007, 11:58

Its the 24th October.

AdRock · Oct 24th, 2007, 12:26

I always thought using .htaccess for passwords was more secure than php.

at university, when we want to access protected pages only available to staff and students, we have to enter our username and password into an .htaccess prompt.

If you don't enter the correct username and password as stored in the .htpsswd file, it won't let you in...period and the password is encrypted too

alexgeek · Oct 24th, 2007, 15:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daniel

Its the 24th October.

This topic was gravedug,
This was posted ages ago.

Marc · Oct 24th, 2007, 16:45

lol - it got reported so i decided to investigate