I would like to cordon off directories in a web site according to the
following scheme:
IF Cadence, THEN
Top_Page
IF Csd, THEN
Level_2
IF Analog, THEN
Level_3
ELSE
authenticate
FI
Clients would be filtered based on either hostname, user authentication,
or
both in some sequence or other. Now, although I am aware of the
facilities
within Apache for dealing with this situation( mod_access, mod_auth, etc
),
my question is:
Is there a facility or method for getting the Apache server to
use
an external file as the source of the hostnames to allow or
deny,
and where should this file be best placed. Further, within the
files
that are the context for host-based access, ie. conf/access.conf
and
.htaccess, can the formatting of the allow/deny directives be
as
shown below:
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from .ncsa.uiuc.edu
.wam.umd.edu
.microsoft.com
.american.edu
.
.
.
.loc.gov
Thank You,
J. Roundtree