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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:14:58 +0100
From: Sacha Varma <sacha@ssl.co.uk>
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Subject: [users@httpd] Basic authentication for a virtual/rewritten URL?

Sorry to interrupt you fine folks, I wasn't able to google up the answer 
to this.

Is it possible to configure Apache to do basic authentication for a URL 
that doesn't correspond to a physical location in the filesystem (e.g. 
because it is rewritten to be served by CGI)?

It appears that the authentication directives are only valid in 
Directory and htacces contexts, so I'm not able to password-protect a 
Location.

On a filthy hunch I tried creating the directory in the filesystem that 
would correspond to the URL, and password-protecting that via a 
Directory configuration block, but that didn't work.


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