Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Phil Ewels wrote: >Ah, so this is what I initially thought, but the problem with that is my >installation of Mailman - it is a central installation which serves >lists to a whole range of different domains, so putting a .htaccess >restriction in the archives folder would then stop access to the

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:40:44PM +, Phil Ewels wrote: > I'd like to protect my mailing list archives behind some .htaccess > protection, but my mailman installation is a central one which serves a > number of different websites. > > I was thinking I could get around this by using a script

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Ewels
Ah, so this is what I initially thought, but the problem with that is my installation of Mailman - it is a central installation which serves lists to a whole range of different domains, so putting a .htaccess restriction in the archives folder would then stop access to the archives for all of m

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Phil Ewels wrote: >So everyone will be using the same login details for the .htaccess >protection (it's a fairly small group of users who need to access these >pages, who all trust each other and having one login for all saves a lot >of hassle). So no dynamic modification needed (if I understan

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Ewels
So everyone will be using the same login details for the .htaccess protection (it's a fairly small group of users who need to access these pages, who all trust each other and having one login for all saves a lot of hassle). So no dynamic modification needed (if I understand you correctly). Us

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Phil Ewels wrote: >I'd like to avoid using the standard private archives because that would >require users to log in a second time, with a second username and >password. I'm attempting to hide everything behind a single .htaccess wall. OK, but I don't think dynamically modifying .htaccess can

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Ewels
I'd like to avoid using the standard private archives because that would require users to log in a second time, with a second username and password. I'm attempting to hide everything behind a single .htaccess wall. The other reason is that the users are currently being signed up by an automate

Re: [Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Mark Sapiro
Phil Ewels wrote: > >I'd like to protect my mailing list archives behind some .htaccess >protection, but my mailman installation is a central one which serves a >number of different websites. Why not just use private archives? You could use a .htaccess file to prevent access by URL if you reall

[Mailman-Users] .htaccess protection of archives

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Ewels
Hi all, I'd like to protect my mailing list archives behind some .htaccess protection, but my mailman installation is a central one which serves a number of different websites. I was thinking I could get around this by using a script to automate a log in to the archives and then scraping the