can I make htdocs subfolder invisible without password protecting it??

asinsh · #1 01-Feb-2004, 08:55

I've got htdocs set up as my root directory and it is password protected. Once you give the password, htdocs open up and you can see all htdocs subfolders.

But there is one particular folder under htdocs that contains phpbb (a bulletin board/forum)...I want this open to the world whenever someone goes there directly (since it has its own login in screen and I don't want to make people sign in twice) but I do not want it listed when someone simply authenticates into htdocs.

Opening up that phpbb subfolder so that no password is required was easy enough -- I just added the following in the httpd.conf file for that subfolder:

allow from all
satisfy any

But of course when I do that, the subfolder shows up when someone authenticates into htdocs. Can I re-jigger things so that that subfolder is invisible when someone gets into htdocs? Or do I have to set up a virtual host to do that (groan)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Alan

JerryWMac · #2 29-Jun-2004, 14:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by asinsh

I've got htdocs set up as my root directory and it is password protected. Once you give the password, htdocs open up and you can see all htdocs subfolders.

But there is one particular folder under htdocs that contains phpbb (a bulletin board/forum)...I want this open to the world whenever someone goes there directly (since it has its own login in screen and I don't want to make people sign in twice) but I do not want it listed when someone simply authenticates into htdocs.

Opening up that phpbb subfolder so that no password is required was easy enough -- I just added the following in the httpd.conf file for that subfolder:

allow from all
satisfy any

But of course when I do that, the subfolder shows up when someone authenticates into htdocs. Can I re-jigger things so that that subfolder is invisible when someone gets into htdocs? Or do I have to set up a virtual host to do that (groan)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Alan

Do up in the htdocs folder a simple index.htm index.html index.php file, that is up to you, and how you have it configured.
ok. do the page up as in below, ( if I can find it...)

<HTML>
<title></title>
<META http-equiv=refresh content=187;URL=http://billieschat.ipupdater.com>
<BASE href=http://your web site/php/index.php>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

The above refresh rate shorten to maybe 10, there should be no pause.
another way of doing this is to just go ahead and move the php folder up one to htdocs.
Far easier, go from the index.php straight into your program. forget about redirecting or whatever.. just move those files up one, or move starting folder out one.

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