AuthUserFile in .htaccess

Hi,

With the AuthUserFile directive in .htaccess, is it possible to
substitute the full path with something like $HOME/public_html/users ?

The reason I ask is because my ISP gives me some webspace on an apache
server, but I don't know what the full path is to my home directory on
there.

Thanks for any help.

JS.

JS schrieb:

> With the AuthUserFile directive in .htaccess, is it possible to
> substitute the full path with something like $HOME/public_html/users ?
>
> The reason I ask is because my ISP gives me some webspace on an apache
> server, but I don't know what the full path is to my home directory on
> there.

Ask your ISP oder start a cgi-script like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {
$val = $ENV{$var};
$val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;
$val =~ s|"|\\"|g;
print "${var}=\"${val}\"\n";
}

This will return all the enviroment variables.
What you need should be this:
DOCUMENT_ROOT="/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
SCRIPT_FILENAME="/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/printenv"

If you have got PHP, just use a simple php-script:
<? phpinfo(); ?>

Greetings, Bernd

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Bernd Muent wrote:
> JS schrieb:
>
>> With the AuthUserFile directive in .htaccess, is it possible to
>> substitute the full path with something like $HOME/public_html/users ?
>>
>> The reason I ask is because my ISP gives me some webspace on an apache
>> server, but I don't know what the full path is to my home directory on
>> there.
>
>
> Ask your ISP oder start a cgi-script like this:
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
> foreach $var (sort(keys(%ENV))) {
> $val = $ENV{$var};
> $val =~ s|\n|\\n|g;
> $val =~ s|"|\\"|g;
> print "${var}=\"${val}\"\n";
> }
>
> This will return all the enviroment variables.
> What you need should be this:
> DOCUMENT_ROOT="/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
> SCRIPT_FILENAME="/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/printenv"
>
> If you have got PHP, just use a simple php-script:
> <? phpinfo(); ?>
>
> Greetings, Bernd
>

It won't tell me the environmental variable of my home though.

JS.

JS schrieb:

> It won't tell me the environmental variable of my home though.

You are right: No, it won't. But why is this necessary. You just need
the absolute path to your AUTH file and that's all you need.
B.

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Bernd Muent wrote:
> JS schrieb:
>
>> It won't tell me the environmental variable of my home though.
>
>
> You are right: No, it won't. But why is this necessary. You just need
> the absolute path to your AUTH file and that's all you need.
> B.
>

That's the problem though, I don't know what the absolute path is, so I
need a way to specify the path using a variable which points to my home.

>>>>> "JS" == JS <vervoom@hotmail.com> writes:

JS> The reason I ask is because my ISP gives me some webspace on an apache
JS> server, but I don't know what the full path is to my home directory on
JS> there.

You might not have a "home" directory there. Probably just webspace.

If you need to have a file that is outside servable filespace, you'll
need to talk to your ISP about a good location for that.

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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>>"JS" == JS <vervoom@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>
> JS> The reason I ask is because my ISP gives me some webspace on an apache
> JS> server, but I don't know what the full path is to my home directory on
> JS> there.
>
> You might not have a "home" directory there. Probably just webspace.
>
> If you need to have a file that is outside servable filespace, you'll
> need to talk to your ISP about a good location for that.
>

I though there may be a way to pick up where the UserDir directive
points to. I'm fairly sure it can be done because a colleague of mine
managed to do it before, but unfortunately he can't remember how!

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:23:15 +0000, JS wrote:

> I though there may be a way to pick up where the UserDir directive
> points to. I'm fairly sure it can be done because a colleague of mine
> managed to do it before, but unfortunately he can't remember how!

Offhand a short CGI or SSI page that prints the contents of $ENV{PWD} or
`pwd` might do the trick.

Totally untested.

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