Requiring user authentication based on port number

[Epsilon]

System: RedHat 7.2, Apache 1.3

I disabled the use of .htaccess for per-directory options on my machine and I put all my Auth directives in httpd.conf. It works great, and improves performance. (another tip: Disable SSI. With PHP, SSI has become obsolete and it slows down the server.)

Anyway, I'm trying to figure out a way to configure User Auth against a .htpasswd file only for a certain port. For example, if a request comes in to 12.34.56.78:80 no authentication, but for 12.34.56.78:10000 require valid-user.

I know there must be some way (probably simple) to set this up in the VirtualHost section of httpd.conf, just not sure how. Anyone know?

[redhead]

Not sure if this is the way you want to do it, but you could have:

Listen 80
Listen 10000
NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80
NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78:10000 

<VirtualHost _default_:80>
    ServerAdmin web@domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/open
    ServerName open.domain.com
    ServerAlias open
    ErrorLog logs/open-error.log
    CustomLog logs/open-access.log combined
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/var/www/open">
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride None
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost _default_:10000>
    ServerAdmin web@domain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/hidden
    ServerName hide_me.domain.com
    ServerAlias hide_me
    ErrorLog logs/hide_me-error.log
    CustomLog logs/hide_me-access.log combined
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
    <Directory "/var/www/hide_me">
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride All
       Order allow,deny
       Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

in your httpd.conf file, if a user is requesting port 10000, then they are directed to a directory, where .htaccess has full control, if its a normal request on port 80, they are directed to a directory, where .htaccess has no permission

I dont know if it is possible to set the same DocumentRoot in both entries or not, since this is an issue I've never tried myself.

[Epsilon]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.