Local and remote paths on .htaccess

ahingert · 10-15-2010, 04:06 PM

Hi,
As many developers probably do, I have a Windows based machine on which I run XAMPP locally to test my code and a Linux machine with Fedora as my remote server.

As I sometimes use .htaccess as a way to authenticate some parts of the website, I end up having two .htaccess files: one with the local path (something line D:\My_Webs\) and one with my remote path (something like /var/www/html/) to the password file.

I have searched high and low, but I cannot seem to find any trick so that I only have to maintain one version of the .htaccess file which can work on both Linux and on Windows machines.

Has anybody found a solution to this?

Thanks,
Adrien

rweaver · 10-15-2010, 04:18 PM

If you could post an example file with the difference, it would make it easier to determine what you're doing and how to best go about it exactly. That being said in some cases you can specify both and since only one will apply that works... With authentication you might be able to get away with relative paths for the related files. Post up an example and it'll be easier to give ya a hand.

(Edit: non-absolute paths are treated as relative to server root... /var/www/html and D:\my_webs\ for example... )

ahingert · 10-16-2010, 05:43 AM

Ok, so on my local XAMPP installation I have something like this in my .htaccess file:

Code:

AuthType	basic
AuthName 	"super secret area!"
AuthUserFile	D:\My_Webs\.htpasswd
require 	valid-user

While on my remote server the .htaccess file would be something like

Code:

AuthType	basic
AuthName 	"super secret area!"
AuthUserFile	/var/www/html/.htpasswd
require 	valid-user

Is there any way that the AuthUserFile path could be the same on both files, maybe using relative paths, or...?

Thanks,
Adrien

ahingert · 10-16-2010, 05:43 AM

Ok, so on my local XAMPP installation I have something like this in my .htaccess file:

Code:

AuthType	basic
AuthName 	"super secret area!"
AuthUserFile	D:\My_Webs\.htpasswd
require 	valid-user

While on my remote server the .htaccess file would be something like

Code:

AuthType	basic
AuthName 	"super secret area!"
AuthUserFile	/var/www/html/.htpasswd
require 	valid-user

Is there any way that the AuthUserFile path could be the same on both files, maybe using relative paths, or...?

Thanks,
Adrien

rweaver · 10-18-2010, 05:08 PM

I would suggest trying relative paths, they should be relative to the web root they're defined under.

ahingert · 10-18-2010, 05:47 PM

Hi rweaver,
I'm not sure how relative paths work. Can you be more explicit please?

Thanks,
Adrien

mrbraco · 01-31-2011, 02:45 PM

I am looking the same thing but in a different way, i got my file:

Code:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Members Only"
AuthUserFile /home/site/public_html/subdom/priv/data/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /home/site/public_html/subdom/priv/data/.htgroup
Require valid-user

but i am looking to ACCESS FROM REMOTE server for membership site with something like this:

Code:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Members Only"
AuthUserFile http://domain.com/subdom/priv/data/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile http://domain.com/subdom/priv/data/.htgroup
Require valid-user

or this:

Code:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Members Only"
AuthUserFile http://subdom.domain.com/priv/data/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile http://subdom.domain.com/priv/data/.htgroup
Require valid-user

Does anybody knows if this is do-able ?
thank you.