[KLUG Members] Apache authentication

RJD bct1hkk02 at sneakemail.com
Sat May 21 15:12:26 EDT 2005


Hi,
(my first message here, so if it should go somewhere else, please let me know)
I've been asked to help out with a web site running Apache and mod perl that uses Apache's "basic authentication" for user login. I know my way around Linux a bit, but I haven't messed with Apache that much. What is being requested is a way to have the user log out. But looking at one of the Apache FAQs, it sounds like "basic authentication" doesn't allow that ( http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html#basicfaq ) After googling around a bit, it seems like many of the solutions that exist would use cookies instead and would require code to be added to every page on the site. I was hoping not to have to touch every page on the site. Is there a way to change the authentication for a site at the server level to allow a logout functionality without having to modify every page?
Thanks,
-Rob



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