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apache LocationMatch and Basic Auth

Is there any way to get matched substring from LocationMatch and use it as part of configuration? I have several similar sites that uses apache Basic auth and want to check against "sitename".passwd files..

in code I mean this but working:

<LocationMatch /([^/]+)/login>
  AuthType Basic
  ...
  AuthUserFile /var/sitepwds/$1.passwd
</LocationMatch>
Solution

  • Use mod_macro for that.

    Write:

    <Macro MyMacro $name>
<LocationMatch /$name/login>
  AuthType Basic
  ...
  AuthUserFile /var/sitepwds/$name.passwd
</LocationMatch>
</Macro>

    and use it like:

    Use MyMacro site1
Use MyMacro site2
Use MyMacro site3
...