Right now I have a server set up for multiple clients: clientA, clientB, clientC.

Each client has their own users.

The way I have it setup is clientA goes to http://www.site.com/clientA and is presented with a login screen which is triggered by an .htaccess file in a directory called /clientA. The .htaccess file directs Apache to perform DBI-based authentication using Apache::AuthDBI.

This works great, but I am aware of the limitations and I would like to set up some rules in the Apache config that accomplish this all without .htaccess files in every directory for every client (gonna get tricky around 100,000 clients for sure!)

Is this even possible? Can I do something like:

RewriteRule ^/(.+)/$ PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_data_source DBI:mysql:$1
Or do I have to create my own authentication module?

Thanks for any direction...

In reply to A better way to handle client authentication? by tosh

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