hey. i'm trying to password protect a wiki site, or rather i don't want to password protect it yet, but i want to make sure that i know how to if i ever need to resist an attack on the site.
i only want to password protect the normally open "edit" ability, i still want people to be able to view all the pages. using moinmoin a link to read a page looks like this: http://www.spack.org/wiki/index.cgi/SamplePage and then to edit it, it looks like this: http://www.spack.org/wiki/index.cgi/SamplePage?action=edit i thought i could use the LocationMatch directive to match this with something like: <LocationMatch "action=edit"> AuthName "Edit Page" AuthUserFile /etc/apache/htpasswd require valid-user </LocationMatch> but it doesn't seem to work and i don't generate any errors. my only thought is that maybe the LocationMatch directive won't match get parameters but there is no mention of this restriction at apache.org which says it should match the entire url. does anyone have any idea what the problem is and how else i might accomplish this? adam.