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Hello, (*Note Some of this may be considered off topic)
I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction on this.
Basically what I have is a cgi script that I want protected by htaccess.
Not a problem, but I want it to authenticate against a MySQL database. I
looked into mod_mysql_auth but it is not suitable for many reasons
(trouble compiling,breaks other things etc.). Anyway is there a way that I
use a directive in httpd.conf (using apache by the way) to have htaccess
use a perl script to authenticate and then return that back to the
htaccess for acceptance or denial? Sorry if this is either unclear or if
I should be asking this somewhere else (if so tell me and I will not
bother you folks).

Thank you,
Ryan

On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 13:56:52 -0400, "Ryan Howe" <>
wrote:

>Basically what I have is a cgi script that I want protected by htaccess.
>Not a problem, but I want it to authenticate against a MySQL database.

Not exactly what you're asking, but if you install the
Apache::Htpasswd module you can keep Apache's password file
synchronised with the user names and passwords in your MySQL database.

In other words, do it the other way around.

Phil

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