Question

I am trying to make a php login page that allows users to access multiple .htaccess protected pages (on apache server). So a user would enter a password in a form on page 1 and depending on which login they provided, they would be sent to one directory or another, but I want the login to happen automatically to the subsequent pages (login is only required on page 1). How does one go about auto logging into an htaccess page if the proper credentials are provided on a referring page? I don’t want to append credentials in the url ?user=user&pass=pass

Answer 1

If you use multiple .htaccess files be sure to set the AuthName the same. This tells the browser that the same cached uid/password should be provided for that ‘Realm’.