Re: mod_auth_mysql

[Benjamin Story <bstory@bullets.net>]

The apache toolbox project has some sort of mod_auth_mysql module listed in it's menu system.  Try looking at http://www.apachetoolbox.com.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:35:10PM -0500, Danny Sauer wrote:
> I'm having a hard time getting my apache server to authenticate against
> a MySQL database.  There seems to have once been a mod_auth_mysql module,
> but the web site is gone, and the garbage code doesn't compile.  It refers
> to a missing header file, the makefile doesn't work right, and It seems
> to generally frustrate me.  I've found all kinds of articles around that
> talk aobut getting it to work, but none of them are right.  I commented
> some crap out and it seems to compile, but apache refuses to load it due
> to some undefined symbol.
> 
> Given the relative shoddiness of this project, I'd rather go somewhere else
> for my auth needs.  Does anyone know of an alternative to authenticate using
> HTTP basic auth, controllable via .htacccess files, with login and passwd
> info held in a MySQL database?  Has anyone gotten mod_auth_mysql to actually
> work?  Am I gonna have to keep passwords in a seperate htpasswd file that
> gets updated at the same time as the database?  Does mod_perl work with PHP
> and MySQL yet so I can write my own friggin' auth handler?
> 
> Thanks.
> --Danny
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