Only prompt WAN users for Apache password?

brianafischer · #1 1st March 2006, 08:34 AM

I was wondering if there were any tricks that would allow me to configure my system running a webserver to only prompt a user coming through my cable modem and not a user on the LAN. My configuration:

Fedora 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3
httpd-2.0.53-3.3

From httpd.conf:

Code:

    AllowOverride None
    # Force a password
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "BasicAuth"
    AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/basicauth
    Require valid-user

Any advice? Thanks,

Brian

wdingus · #2 2nd March 2006, 02:57 AM

.htaccess contents:

AuthName "whatever"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/file
deny from all
allow from nnn.nnn.nnn
require valid-user
satisfy any

The "allow from" I have in place is the first 3 octets of a valid Class C network. I'm guessing it could be defined quite a few ways other than how I did it... The "satisfy any" allows either the internal LAN IP or the providing of a password coming in from some other network to constitute authentication.