How to protect directory in Mongrel

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Hi Rails Gurus,

I just noticed that mongrel does not process .htaccess. How can I password protect a directory in mongrel then? I've search everyone and cannot find an answer. Please help!!!

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Mongdar wrote:

Hi Rails Gurus,

I just noticed that mongrel does not process .htaccess. How can I password protect a directory in mongrel then? I've search everyone and cannot find an answer. Please help!!!

I don't believe you can.

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You can’t do it so easily.

You have a few options:

• Put Apache in front of mongrel and password protect the directory using Apache

• Make a controller in Rails with the same name as your directory to protect (if it’s in the /public/ folder) and deny access that way

• If the chance that they’ll guess the name of the files is almost non-existant, you can just put an index.html file in the folder

• If you want a dialog box to pop up for login into your app, restful_authentication has some example code on how to handle this (it uses it for authenticated XML requests)

Best regards

Peter De Berdt