[[!template id=plugin name=httpauth author="Alec Berryman"]] [[!tag type/auth]] This plugin allows HTTP basic authentication to be used to log into the wiki. ## fully authenticated wiki One way to use the plugin is to configure your web server to require HTTP basic authentication for any access to the directory containing the wiki (and `ikiwiki.cgi`). The authenticated user will be automatically signed into the wiki. This method is suitable only for private wikis. ## separate cgiauthurl To use httpauth for a wiki where the content is public, and where the `ikiwiki.cgi` needs to be usable without authentication (for searching, or logging in using other methods, and so on), you can configure a separate url that is used for authentication, via the `cgiauthurl` option in the setup file. This url will then be redirected to when a user chooses to log in using httpauth. A typical setup is to make an `auth` subdirectory, and symlink `ikiwiki.cgi` into it. Then configure the web server to require authentication only for access to the `auth` subdirectory. Then `cgiauthurl` is pointed at this symlink. ## using only httpauth for some pages If you want to only use httpauth for editing some pages, while allowing other authentication methods to be used for other pages, you can configure `httpauth_pagespec` in the setup file. This makes Edit links on pages that match the [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] automatically use the `cgiauthurl`, and prevents matching pages from being edited by users authentication via other methods.