Re: htaccess and a login "page"

Unless your Web server software supports it (and I don't know of any that 
do), you can't use a .htaccess file to generate an HTML page that the user 
will see prompting them for their username and password.  Normally, to get 
an HTML page with username/password authentication, you'd need to create a 
form on the server side and a server-side script to check that the username 
and password are valid.

There may be Web development programs that can create these forms, and the 
required server-side programs, automatically.  I don't know of any, but I'm 
pretty sure there's no way to do it with .htaccess.

         -Bennett

At 11:30 AM 9/26/2001 -0400, Jeniffer C. Johnson wrote:
>Hello List,
>
>I don't know if this is possible or not, but here's what I'd like to 
>accomplish. I've got a directory that is password protected using htaccess 
>for members only. When a member clicks on a "login now" link, I would like 
>the user to be presented with a nice tidy html page with the login form 
>and a "submit" button, rather than the popup dialogue box for entering 
>username and password. Is this doable? If so, how exactly do I accomplish 
>it?
>
>TIA,
>Jeniffer
>
>
>Jeniffer C. Johnson
>OffLead Productions
>www.offlead.com
>
>###########################


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