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On Friday 24 July 2020 at 23:08:02, Jason Pitt wrote:

> We'd like to have a single .htpasswd file shared across multiple
> machines/servers...is there a way to configure the htaccess file to a shared
> remote .htpasswd file?

Apache doesn't install these files - it only reads them.

How about rsync?


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On Saturday 25 July 2020 at 00:07:23, Antony Stone wrote:

> On Friday 24 July 2020 at 23:08:02, Jason Pitt wrote:
> > We'd like to have a single .htpasswd file shared across multiple
> > machines/servers...is there a way to configure the htaccess file to a
> > shared remote .htpasswd file?
>
> Apache doesn't install these files - it only reads them.
>
> How about rsync?

Or NFS?

> Antony.

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You can get htaccess to query a SQL, LDAP backend.

Else you will need to look at some type of deployment tool like puppet,
ansible.

HTH

Regards
Brent


On 2020/07/24 23:08, Jason Pitt wrote:
> We have some robotics hardware that each has a built in webserver that
> uses standard .htaccess and .htpasswd files to control access.  We'd
> like to have a single .htpasswd file shared across multiple
> machines/servers...is there a way to configure the htaccess file to a
> shared remote .htpasswd file?
>
> -thanks
> J
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