Apache & PHP_AUTH_USER

[rynox]

Got a little problem with PHP_AUTH_USER, running Apache 1.3, PHP 4.2? on Netware. Corporate Intranet site.

I have a home page /index.php that does not require a login, so to get the user to log in, I link them to /notanon/main/index.php which prompts for an NDS login (because the folder is not set to allow anonymous access, uses Apache NDS module). The only thing the /notanon/main/index.php file does is redirect back to the /index.php. The problem is, once I redirect back to /index.php, Apache is not sending the PHP_AUTH_USER server variable to the client.

The strange thing is, when I test with a .php file in the /notanon/main/ directory or even the /notanon/ directory the PHP_AUTH_USER variable is available, just not from the document root.

Any ideas? I'm pulling my hair out here.

rynðx

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[rynox]

I take it no one else has any ideas on this either. It's probably a bug. Novell's Apache/PHP is still in development. :cool: As a workaround, I'm doing an LDAP query against one of our eDirectory servers and storing the user name in a session variable.

I'm considering some sort of password caching table in MySQL to reduce eDirectory activity. I don't want to have plain-text passwords in MySQL and ROT-13 is seems sort of :rolleyes: , so... anyone have any ideas on how to keep the passwords somewhat encrypted, scrambled, anything?

rynðx

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