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Although searching a file of usernames and passwords works perfectly well, it is apt to be rather slow once the list gets up to a couple hundred entries. To deal with this, Apache provides a better way of handling large lists by turning them into a database. You need one (not both!) of the modules that appear in the Config file as follows:
#Module db_auth_module mod_auth_db.o
Module dbm_auth_module mod_auth_dbm.oBear in mind that they correspond to different directives:
AuthDBMUserFile or
AuthDBUserFile. A Perl script to manage both types
of database,
dbmmanage, is supplied with Apache in
.../src/support. To decide which type to use,
you need to discover the capabilities of your Unix. Explore these by
going to the command prompt and typing first:
% man dband then:
% man dbmWhichever method produces a manpage is the one you should use. You can also use a SQL database, employing MySQLor a third-party package to manage it.
Once you have decided which method to use, edit the Config file to include the appropriate module, and then type:
% ./Configureand:
% makeWe now have to create a database of our users: bill, ben, sonia, and daphne. Go to ... /apache/src/support, find the utility dbmmanage, and copy it into /usr/local/bin or something similar to put it on your path. This utility may be distributed without execute permission set, so, before attempting to run it, we may need to change the permissions:
% chmod +x dbmmanageYou may find, when you first try to run dbmmanage, that it complains rather puzzlingly that some unnamed file can't be found. Since dbmmanage is a Perl script, this is probably Perl, a text-handling language, and if you have not installed it, you should. It may also be necessary to change the first line of dbmmanage:
#!/usr/bin/perl5to the correct path for Perl, if it is installed somewhere else.
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