Directory Security

[Trancemission]

Apologies if this is a simple question but I cannot see to get any help from documentation or google.

I am now working on a project which requires an intranet application where I can select a folder from our Lan [a mount drive on my BSD web server] and clients can browse the lan.

My problem here is security, I need to control access to this intranet, I have had a play with .htaccess but cannot get it wokring, and I am not sure if this will work with all my sub-directories.

Some of these directories are 10 folders deep so putting a htaccess file in each is not practical.

Is there a config I can setup that will ask for uname and password on a session basis.

I do not wish to create a per-directory acl, just an overal policy so basically if any body trys to hit my intranet [any folder within] they need a uname and password.

Writing thie post make's it seem even more simple but I script php

Cheers



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[Newposter]

.htaccess works for the directory in which it resides, and all its subdirectories by default.

What OS are you running, and what is the exact difficulty in implementing?

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[Trancemission]

BSD 4.9, Apache 1.3.?

Sorry no implementation yet, just prep work for the project. I have been trying to find the time to learn apache configs but had little luck yet so thought I would try and leech of somebody else's time and thought :-o

Thanks for the info, I have a couple of implementations of .htaccess but nothing that I have been able to play about with, plus I now know that .htaccess works under sub dirs


Cheers

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If it's logical, it'll work!