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[[!template id=plugin name=httpauth author="Alec Berryman"]]
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[[!tag type/auth]]
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This plugin allows HTTP basic authentication to be used to log into the
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wiki.
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## fully authenticated wiki
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One way to use the plugin is to configure your web server to require
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HTTP basic authentication for any access to the directory containing the
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wiki (and `ikiwiki.cgi`). The authenticated user will be automatically
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signed into the wiki. This method is suitable only for private wikis.
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## separate cgiauthurl
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To use httpauth for a wiki where the content is public, and where
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the `ikiwiki.cgi` needs to be usable without authentication (for searching
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and so on), you can configure a separate url that is used for
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authentication, via the `cgiauthurl` option in the setup file. This
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url will then be redirected to whenever authentication is needed.
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A typical setup is to make an `auth` subdirectory, and symlink `ikiwiki.cgi`
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into it. Then configure the web server to require authentication only for
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access to the `auth` subdirectory. Then `cgiauthurl` is pointed at this
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symlink.
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