[dokuwiki] Re: Securing a folder outside dokuwiki with dokuwiki auth

  • From: Grant Gardner <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 00:30:02 +1000


On Thu, 07 May 2009 13:45:32 +0200, Andreas Benzler <info.benzler@xxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi Grant
>
>> This auth backend http://www.dokuwiki.org/auth:ggauth#htaccess should
>> enable this with single sign-on and BASIC auth.
>
> Thank you for the hint. If I use this method, don't I have to use this
> htaccess file authentification for dokuwiki as well?

Yes, if you want single sign-on.

> Because I only want
> to protect a folder which lies on the same level of dokuwiki like
> -wwwroot
> --dokuwiki_install
> --additional_content
>
> I only want to use basic auth for the content inside the
> additional_content folder. Dokuwiki should authenticate with its login
> form like it always does. Or do I get somehting wrong with the htaccess
> backend?
>

You can set it up to do that but your users will see a browser login dialog
the first time they access the additional content.
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