The site has a combination of public content, static group content and dynamic private content.

I have a site like this. The scripts that generate dynamic content require an appropriate login cookie, and the data that they use is kept in a folder that is not visible to the web server. No apache authentication is required. Works fine, though it does mean that I have to do downloads via a CGI script, instead of letting the web server handle the details.

I would rather control access to the static group content via htaccess authenticate so that update of the pages does not intermingle with the Perl scripts.

So keep the perl scripts in a separate directory?

I'm still not seeing why you need .htaccess control.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Calling script after htaccess authentification by dws
in thread Calling script after htaccess authentification by Xxaxx

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