Re: CakePHP with directory password protection?

Thanks buddy. Thats exactly what I was looking for. Its just to create the error page and you are done.

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On Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:47:13 AM UTC+5, Jon wrote:

Whoa!  I fixed it.  If anybody runs into this same error, here's the
page that I learned about what to do:
http://textpattern.com/faq/173/password-protected-directories-with-htaccess
Apparently when you have authentication, it needs to have a 401 page,
which isn't accessible since the htaccess file disables it.

On Apr 21, 12:41 am, Jon <port23u...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 20, 9:19 am, "b logica" <foo.log...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Jon <port23u...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >  I tried this...now I get a 404 error.  It was working with the two
> > >  blocks.  Weird.
>
> > Try RewriteRule ^/grades[.*]? - [L]
>
> This causes neither /grades/ nor /grades/csv/ to work, whereas before
> just /grades/ worked.
>
>
>
> > >  When I remove the .htaccess file within /grades/csv/ it works.  The
> > >  only problem is that we need that password protection...
>
> > Are you confident the AuthUserFile path is correct and accessible by apache?
> > Do you have anything under /grades/csv that has links to elsewhere?
> > JS, or CSS, or the like?
>
> I used my host's control panel (cPanel) to generate the .htaccess that
> contains AuthUserFile.  It was working before moving CakePHP to the
> server.  Just to be sure, I deleted it and recreated it using cPanel
> and still no luck.  My guess is that somehow it's not being able to do
> that auth, but I'm not sure how.  Within /grades/csv is just a plain
> php file that references a database.  No references to JS or CSS--I
> even tried using an empty PHP index page, but it still doesn't work.
>
>
>
> > >  On Apr 18, 8:16 pm, "b logica" <foo.log...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  > You shouldn't use 2 blocks like that. Try this:
>
> > >  > <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> > >  >    RewriteEngine On
> > >  >    RewriteBase /
> > >  >    RewriteRule ^/grades - [L]
> > >  >    RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
> > >  >    RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
> > >  > </IfModule>
>
> > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Jon <port23u...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >  > >  I have CakePHP installed, and naturally it uses mod_rewrite to make
> > >  > >  the URLs clean.  I made a modification to the htaccess file to allow
> > >  > >  me to ignore it for a certain directory.  But then within that
> > >  > >  directory, I have an htaccess that defines password protection of that
> > >  > >  directory.  Now I get a 404 error.  How can I keep password
> > >  > >  protection, but allow it to function as normal?  Here are my files:
>
> > >  > >  .htaccess in document root:
> > >  > >  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> > >  > >     RewriteEngine On
> > >  > >     RewriteBase /
> > >  > >     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} grades
> > >  > >     RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
>
> > >  > >  </IfModule>
>
> > >  > >  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> > >  > >    RewriteEngine on
> > >  > >    RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
> > >  > >    RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
> > >  > >  </IfModule>
>
> > >  > >  .htaccess in the directory I want to protect:
> > >  > >  AuthType Basic
> > >  > >  AuthName "Restricted Area"
> > >  > >  AuthUserFile "/home/username/.htpasswds/public_html/grades/csv/passwd"
> > >  > >  require valid-user

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