Help .htaccess login redirect script.

[jcarson]

I am using a webserver and have not done a lot of htaccess stuff. I am looking to have a sscript where the user clicks a "Log In", and depending on their answer it takes them to a protected directory. I need the list of users names masked (easy enough). Thats the only catch. Not top security here, but decent.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this with htaccess?

Goal: Click login, get transferred to a protected directory based on login info. ie Joe logs in and it takes hime to \private\joe which it htaccess protected.

Seems simple, but I have not done this before. PM me please. 🙂

 

[jcarson]

anyone? Is this the right forum?

 

[jcarson]

Is htaccess the thing to use here? Anyone know where I can find this?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Writing something in php/perl might be easier. I haven't seen anything like this done with .htaccess. Did you check the apache site? Their documentation isn't too bad.

 

[Torghn]

I've never tried that, but everything I know about .htaccess I learned from here.

 

[jcarson]

where could I find a script like this in PHP? I dont know the syntax yet (time to learn)