.htaccess code to protect a single url?

Question

Is it possible to achieve this? For example I will have "website.com/index.php?skin=name" can I password protect only this url? (with no php changing only htaccess)

P.S. "website.com/index.php" or "website.com/index.php?skin=other_name" should not be restricted..

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can if you use mod-rewrite to rewrite the address to something else and protect that.

http://serverfault.com/questions/94964/apache-locationmatch-directive

You can't use LocationMatch, even though it would appear that you could.

Answer 2

Your best bet is to do it in PHP. A quick google search later and I found a great way to use PHP_AUTH which looks a lot like the .HTACCESS login prompt

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2006

Answer 3

You can rewrite the address to protect it like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}  ^/index\.php$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^skin=(name)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /skin/%1 [PT]

<LocationMatch "/skin/name">
     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "By Invitation Only"
     AuthUserFile /path/to/passwords
     Require valid-user
</LocationMatch>