Re: security with Minimate (.htaccess)

[Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>]

Jay Austad <austad@fallon.com> writes:

> What would be the best way to go about limiting access to Minimate?  I
> tried a .htaccess file, but it didn't work.  I assume this is because the
> minivend process is grabbing the data from the Minimate directory instead
> of Apache grabbing the data.  Should I remove Minimate when I'm not using
> it?  There has to be a better way.

MiniVend has its own scheme to protect MiniVend pages, with .access 
and .access_gate files. See section "MiniVend Security"
of the documentation. This should be part of the MiniMate installation
and will be introduced in the future (suggestions are welcome).

Ciao
		Racke

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