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September 21st, 1999, 04:09 PM

vbedceo

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If I have around 5000 registered users, when a user wants to log in, what is the best way to handle authorization -1. take username and password input and compare in the user table in mysql or 2. use the good old way .htaccess?

September 21st, 1999, 04:57 PM

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I don't know if there is a best way URL

I PREFER to create users and groups to access certain areas of a site with .htaccess. Then I let php scripting include the login for the mySQL databases. This limits the users in the databse. I have not had a security problem doing it this way (yet).

September 23rd, 1999, 01:35 PM

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The only thing to be aware of when using .htaccess for name/password protection:

Apache is NOT very efficient at searching for the name/pw combination. With very large groups you'd probably be better using a form based login and a RDB like MySQL for access verification.

At 5000 users you're probably ok with .htaccess but much more than that...

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