Plugin: httpauth
Author: Alec Berryman
Included in ikiwiki: yes
Enabled by default: no
Included in goodstuff: no
Currently enabled: no
This plugin allows HTTP basic authentication to be used to log into the wiki.
fully authenticated wiki
One way to use the plugin is to configure your web server to require
HTTP basic authentication for any access to the directory containing the
wiki (and ikiwiki.cgi
). The authenticated user will be automatically
signed into the wiki. This method is suitable only for private wikis.
separate cgiauthurl
To use httpauth for a wiki where the content is public, and where
the ikiwiki.cgi
needs to be usable without authentication (for searching
and so on), you can configure a separate url that is used for
authentication, via the cgiauthurl
option in the setup file. This
url will then be redirected to whenever authentication is needed.
A typical setup is to make an auth
subdirectory, and symlink ikiwiki.cgi
into it. Then configure the web server to require authentication only for
access to the auth
subdirectory. Then cgiauthurl
is pointed at this
symlink.