Password protect site not through .htacess ?

[rich00]

Hi all,

I'm new to apache so please go easy on me. I'm looking at password protecting a site. The scenario is that apache is being used as web proxy, the page is actually coming from weblogic appliation server. From my understanding .htaccess needs to be placed in the directory that you are trying to protect. So in this case it wouldn't work as the page doesn't reside on apache. Is there any other way I can setup username/password to protect a site in apache ?

Thanks in advance

[caribguy]

Look at the <Limit> and <LimitExcept> directives. Why not just use WebLogic for this?

[rich00]

Thanks for the reply. I did ask the developer about using weblogic and they weren't keen on doing so. I'll look into the <limit> directive.

[rich00]

Auth digest seems to do what I'm after.