Do any of you guys know how to htpasswd protect the admin.cgi file? My server is set up in a way that I can't set up an htaccess for the whole admin folder for security reasons. I don't want to set up any mods to do that either. I KNOW there's a way protect just a certain file but unfortunaly I've failed to find any info on it, everything seems to lead to protecting the whole directory.

If any of you guys know a link or would just explain it here I would be extatic, thank you in a advance :)

Simply put; its not possible. The only way to protect just the CGI files is to write some code into them, which would require you to have a valid cookie on your PC, before it would do anything. I believe there was a mod around a while ago for thisd...but I'm not sure if its still around

Hope that helps.

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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I don't know what the other guy is talking about, but it is possible to protect just files. I just did it, in fact. I'm new to this and am tryting to figure out how to protect multiple file in my CGI directory.

I may not know much, but if it works, it works. Here is a sample of the code I'm using in my .htaccess file in CGI directory:

<Files CGIPROGRAM.pl>
AuthUserFile /home/USER/DIR/.htpasswd
AuthName "WHATEVER"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
</Files>

Hope that works for you! I also hope that people who don't know what theyr'e talking about wouldn't say some is "not possible".

-Philip

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Update:

I just figured out how to protect multiple files in my cgi-bin directory! It's so simple:

<Files CGIPROGRAM.pl>
AuthUserFile /home/USER/DIR/.htpasswd
AuthName "WHATEVER"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
</Files>
<Files ANOTHER_CGIPROGRAM.pl>
AuthUserFile /home/USER/DIR/.htpasswd
AuthName "WHATEVER"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
</Files>

The above is just what I've used, I only added the words in CAPS over my data. Give it a try!

-Philip

www.321green.com

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