UNIX + Windows htaccess in one file possible?

External Since: Jul 04, 2003 Posts: 6

Hello!

I use WAMP for developing and LAMP for hosting my website.

Sometimes I need to password-protect certain directories. On the LAMP-Server
I need to put

AuthUserFile "/somepath/.htpasswd"

into my htaccess file to point to the password-file. On the WAMP-Server,
however, it's:

AuthUserFile "c:\someotherpath\htdocs\.htpasswd"

This requires me to use two different htaccess-files (win.htaccess and
linux.htaccess), that each must be renamed to .htaccess on the approriate
server. This method is quite circumstantial. I don't know how to put logic
into the htacces files (if LAMP use this directory; else use that
directory). Hence my question:

Is it possible to use a single htaccess-file on both systems? If so how?

Thanks for your help.

Ralf

External Since: Nov 03, 2003 Posts: 2907

Ralf Gmeiner <rgmeiner.RemoveThis@gmx.de> wrote:
> I don't know how to put logic into the htacces files

You can't.

> Is it possible to use a single htaccess-file on both systems?

No. They are two _different_ system.

You could do two things:

1. setup a Linux environment to use, Linux is basically Unix, so you
can use that environment to test things and have the same identical
configuration

2. use an automatic script that automatically change your .htaccess files

Davide