.htaccess Only allow people to see a file if they are logged in.

[bmdsherman]

Is there any way I can use .htaccess to only allow people who are "logged in" (having a registered php session) to see the files in a directory?

[cpace1983]

I think the best way would be to redirect those requests to a PHP script, which will then fetch the files if the user is logged in.  Apache can be configured to use a database for .htaccess, but I don't believe Apache has the ability to encrypt/decrypt the passwords (which I'm assuming you need).

 

If you don't need encryption, this might be the ticket here:

http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/htaccessmysql/