.htaccess dir protection

al404 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-08-2008, 03:18 PM

i'm just starting with ZF but the first thing that i'm thinking at is:

- how can i create an area protected by .htaccess?

since i'm new at MVC model i can't figure out how to do it

DSmith · #2 (**permalink**) 05-09-2008, 09:07 AM

There's plenty of sites out there with instructions how to do this...

4WebHelp - Password Protection

al404 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-10-2008, 04:52 PM

is not exatly what i ment

i know i protect with .htaccess

but if in a normal sttructure i can have

/publicwebsite
/cms
/common
/images

and i would put my .htaccess in the /cms directory

in a MVC structur where do you put the .haccess?

let say i create a CMS and i want to password protect by .htaccess
where would i put it?

in the directory
/application/viewers/cms/
?

kuba · #4 (**permalink**) 05-11-2008, 11:52 AM

ZF Project outline should look something like this:

Code:

+application
   bootstrap.php
   +controllers
   +models
   +views
      +scripts
   ...
+public // server www root should be set here
   index.php // this file should require_once bootstrap.php file from application directory
   .htaccess // RewriteEngine on
                    RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$ index.php
   +styles
   +images
   +someotherdate
   +protectedfolder
      .htaccess // RewriteEngine off and some other authentication logic

so if you go to http://www.mysite.com/protectedfolder you will get a nice dialog window which asks for user and password (feature of web server sending 401 http status code)

other thing is when you want to build application with protected area only for admin/users and authenticate them with login site - then you will propably use Zend_Authenticate which will check wheter user exists in database and supplied password is correct

Please read more in manual on ZF official site

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