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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. In this mode, the web browser authenticates the user by some means,
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and sets the `REMOTE_USER CGI` environment variable. This plugin trusts
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that if that variable is set, the user is authenticated.
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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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or logging in using other methods, and so on), you can configure a separate
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url that is used for authentication, via the `cgiauthurl` option in the setup
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file. This url will then be redirected to when a user chooses to log in using
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httpauth.
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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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## using only httpauth for some pages
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If you want to only use httpauth for editing some pages, while allowing
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other authentication methods to be used for other pages, you can
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configure `httpauth_pagespec` in the setup file. This makes Edit
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links on pages that match the [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] automatically use
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the `cgiauthurl`, and prevents matching pages from being edited by
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users authentication via other methods.
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