Calling the Brain Trust
Monday, May 31st, 2010 | Tech
Ok, here is the situation. I have a website which has two virtual hostnames pointed at it – domaim.com and sub.domain.com. They both point to the exact same location in the file system and serve the same content. However I need one of them to invoke a http authentication and the other not to.
The obvious solutions I see are…
Set up a rule in the .htaccess so it only requires a valid user when accessing the sub domain. This is the simplest solution but I don’t think such a rule exists.
Dynamically serve different .htaccess files based on the host being accessed. This ticks neither box of being simple or actually something you can actually make the computer do. But maybe it is if you start layering your .htaccess files.
Invoke the http authentication from the PHP script itself, detecting the server name and serving if appropriate. This is doable and straight forward to implement but requires quite a bit of coding.
Also maybe I can do the original solution, but only inside the vhosts.conf file? I haven’t really looked into that so that’s just speculation. Question is, which is the easiest solution to implement?
Ok, here is the situation. I have a website which has two virtual hostnames pointed at it – domaim.com and sub.domain.com. They both point to the exact same location in the file system and serve the same content. However I need one of them to invoke a http authentication and the other not to.
The obvious solutions I see are…
Set up a rule in the .htaccess so it only requires a valid user when accessing the sub domain. This is the simplest solution but I don’t think such a rule exists.
Dynamically serve different .htaccess files based on the host being accessed. This ticks neither box of being simple or actually something you can actually make the computer do. But maybe it is if you start layering your .htaccess files.
Invoke the http authentication from the PHP script itself, detecting the server name and serving if appropriate. This is doable and straight forward to implement but requires quite a bit of coding.
Also maybe I can do the original solution, but only inside the vhosts.conf file? I haven’t really looked into that so that’s just speculation. Question is, which is the easiest solution to implement?