WAMP / LAMP differences in authentication

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I'm working on setting up a testing environment to try to get LDAP authentication to work in either a WAMP or LAMP environment. May be a stupid question, but there are differences between the WAMP and LAMP, namely the WAMP uses "httpd.conf" as the config file and uses .htaccess permissions to protect folders, while the the WAMP uses "apache2.conf" as the config file and uses "<directory>" sections to protect folders.

Is this correct, and is either one better to use?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Little things like that are generally the choices of the maintainers. No biggie either way.

 

[Nothinman]

I think httpd.conf was default in Apache 1.x and apache2.conf is default in Apache 2.x, I could be wrong on that though.

You can use "<directory>" or .htaccess in either setup. Although it can be a pain to create .htaccess files in Windows because explorer tells you that you "need a filename"
whenever you try to create a file with a name that starts with a period.