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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_auth_form</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Form authentication</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">ModuleIdentifier:</a></th><td>auth_form_module</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">SourceFile:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form.c</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache 2.3 and later</td></tr></table>
<h3>Summary</h3>

    <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
      <p>Form authentication depends on the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session.html">mod_session</a></code>
      modules, and these modules make use of HTTP cookies, and as such can fall
      victim to Cross Site Scripting attacks, or expose potentially private
      information to clients. Please ensure that the relevant risks have
      been taken into account before enabling the session functionality on
      your server.</p>
    </div>

    <p>This module allows the use of an HTML login form to restrict access
    by looking up users in the given providers. HTML forms require
    significantly more configuration than the alternatives, however an
    HTML login form can provide a much friendlier experience for end users.
    </p>

    <p>HTTP basic authentication is provided by
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html">mod_auth_basic</a></code>, and HTTP digest authentication is
    provided by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_digest.html">mod_auth_digest</a></code>.  This module should
    be combined with at least one authentication module
    such as <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html">mod_authn_file</a></code> and one authorization
    module such as <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_user.html">mod_authz_user</a></code>.</p>

    <p>Once the user has been successfully authenticated, the user's login
    details will be stored in a session provided by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session.html">mod_session</a></code>.
    </p>

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<div id="quickview"><a href="https://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html" class="badge"><img src="https://www.apache.org/images/SupportApache-small.png" alt="Support Apache!" /></a><h3>Topics</h3>
<ul id="topics">
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#basicconfig">Basic Configuration</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#standalone">Standalone Login</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#inline">Inline Login</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#inlinepreservebody">Inline Login with Body Preservation</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#loggingout">Logging Out</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#urlencoding">Usernames and Passwords</a></li>
</ul><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
<ul id="toc">
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformauthoritative">AuthFormAuthoritative</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformbody">AuthFormBody</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformdisablenostore">AuthFormDisableNoStore</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformfakebasicauth">AuthFormFakeBasicAuth</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformlocation">AuthFormLocation</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformloginrequiredlocation">AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformloginsuccesslocation">AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformlogoutlocation">AuthFormLogoutLocation</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformmethod">AuthFormMethod</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformmimetype">AuthFormMimetype</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformpassword">AuthFormPassword</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformprovider">AuthFormProvider</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformsitepassphrase">AuthFormSitePassphrase</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformsize">AuthFormSize</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authformusername">AuthFormUsername</a></li>
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<h3>Bugfix checklist</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4">httpd changelog</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&amp;list_id=144532&amp;product=Apache%20httpd-2&amp;query_format=specific&amp;order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&amp;component=mod_auth_form">Known issues</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2&amp;component=mod_auth_form">Report a bug</a></li></ul><h3>See also</h3>
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<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session.html">mod_session</a></code></li>
<li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#authname">AuthName</a></code></li>
<li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#authtype">AuthType</a></code></li>
<li><code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authz_core.html#require">Require</a></code></li>
<li><a href="../howto/auth.html">Authentication howto</a></li>
<li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="basicconfig" id="basicconfig">Basic Configuration</a></h2>

      <p>To protect a particular URL with <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code>, you need to
      decide where you will store your <var>session</var>, and you will need to
      decide what method you will use to authenticate. In this simple example, the
      login details will be stored in a session based on
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session_cookie.html">mod_session_cookie</a></code>, and authentication will be attempted against
      a file using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html">mod_authn_file</a></code>. If authentication is unsuccessful,
      the user will be redirected to the form login page.</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Basic example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/admin"&gt;
    AuthFormProvider file
    AuthUserFile "conf/passwd"
    AuthType form
    AuthName "/admin"
    AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation "http://example.com/login.html"

    Session On
    SessionCookieName session path=/

    Require valid-user
&lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
</div>

      <p>The directive <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#authtype">AuthType</a></code> will enable
      the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code> authentication when set to the value <var>form</var>.
      The directives <code class="directive"><a href="#authformprovider">AuthFormProvider</a></code> and
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html#authuserfile">AuthUserFile</a></code> specify that usernames
      and passwords should be checked against the chosen file.</p>

      <p>The directives <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_session.html#session">Session</a></code> and
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_session_cookie.html#sessioncookiename">SessionCookieName</a></code> 
      session stored within an HTTP cookie on the browser. For more information
      on the different options for configuring a session, read the documentation for
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session.html">mod_session</a></code>.</p>

      <p>You can optionally add a 
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_session_crypto.html#sessioncryptopassphrase">SessionCryptoPassphrase</a></code> to 
      create an encrypted session cookie. This required the additional
      module <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session_crypto.html">mod_session_crypto</a></code> be loaded.</p>

      <p>In the simple example above, a URL has been protected by
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code>, but the user has yet to be given an opportunity to
      enter their username and password. Options for doing so include providing a
      dedicated standalone login page for this purpose, or for providing the login
      page inline.</p>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="standalone" id="standalone">Standalone Login</a></h2>

      <p>The login form can be hosted as a standalone page, or can be provided inline on
      the same page.</p>

      <p>When configuring the login as a standalone page, unsuccessful authentication
      attempts should be redirected to a login form created by the website for this purpose,
      using the <code class="directive"><a href="#authformloginrequiredlocation">AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation</a></code>
      directive. Typically this login page will contain an HTML form, asking the user to
      provide their usename and password.</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Example login form</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-html">&lt;form method="POST" action="/dologin.html"&gt;
  Username: &lt;input type="text" name="httpd_username" value="" /&gt;
  Password: &lt;input type="password" name="httpd_password" value="" /&gt;
  &lt;input type="submit" name="login" value="Login" /&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;</pre>
</div>

      <p>The part that does the actual login is handled by the <var>form-login-handler</var>.
      The action of the form should point at this handler, which is configured within
      Apache httpd as follows:</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Form login handler example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/dologin.html"&gt;
    SetHandler form-login-handler
    AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation "http://example.com/login.html"
    AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation "http://example.com/admin/index.html"
    AuthFormProvider file
    AuthUserFile "conf/passwd"
    AuthType form
    AuthName /admin
    Session On
    SessionCookieName session path=/
&lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
</div>

      <p>The URLs specified by the
      <code class="directive"><a href="#authformloginrequiredlocation">AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation</a></code> directive will typically
      point to a page explaining to the user that their login attempt was unsuccessful, and they
      should try again.  The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformloginsuccesslocation">AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation</a></code>
      directive specifies the URL the user should be redirected to upon successful login.</p>

      <p>Alternatively, the URL to redirect the user to on success can be embedded within the login
      form, as in the example below. As a result, the same <var>form-login-handler</var> can be
      reused for different areas of a website.</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Example login form with location</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-html">&lt;form method="POST" action="/dologin.html"&gt;
  Username: &lt;input type="text" name="httpd_username" value="" /&gt;
  Password: &lt;input type="password" name="httpd_password" value="" /&gt;
  &lt;input type="submit" name="login" value="Login" /&gt;
  &lt;input type="hidden" name="httpd_location" value="http://example.com/success.html" /&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;</pre>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="inline" id="inline">Inline Login</a></h2>

      <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
        <p>A risk exists that under certain circumstances, the login form configured
        using inline login may be submitted more than once, revealing login credentials to
        the application running underneath. The administrator must ensure that the underlying
        application is properly secured to prevent abuse. If in doubt, use the
        standalone login configuration.</p>
      </div>

      <p>As an alternative to having a dedicated login page for a website, it is possible to
      configure <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code> to authenticate users inline, without being
      redirected to another page. This allows the state of the current page to be preserved
      during the login attempt. This can be useful in a situation where a time limited
      session is in force, and the session times out in the middle of the user request. The
      user can be re-authenticated in place, and they can continue where they left off.</p>

      <p>If a non-authenticated user attempts to access a page protected by
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code> that isn't configured with a
      <code class="directive"><a href="#authformloginrequiredlocation">AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation</a></code> directive,
      a <var>HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED</var> status code is returned to the browser indicating to the user
      that they are not authorized to view the page.</p>

      <p>To configure inline authentication, the administrator overrides the error document
      returned by the <var>HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED</var> status code with a custom error document
      containing the login form, as follows:</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Basic inline example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">AuthFormProvider file
ErrorDocument 401 "/login.shtml"
AuthUserFile "conf/passwd"
AuthType form
AuthName realm
AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation "http://example.com/login.html"
Session On
SessionCookieName session path=/</pre>
</div>

      <p>The error document page should contain a login form with an empty action property,
      as per the example below.  This has the effect of submitting the form to
      the original protected URL, without the page having to know what that
      URL is.</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Example inline login form</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-html">&lt;form method="POST" <strong>action=""</strong>&gt;
  Username: &lt;input type="text" name="httpd_username" value="" /&gt;
  Password: &lt;input type="password" name="httpd_password" value="" /&gt;
  &lt;input type="submit" name="login" value="Login" /&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;</pre>
</div>

      <p>When the end user has filled in their login details, the form will make
      an HTTP POST request to the original password protected URL.
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code> will intercept this POST request, and if
      HTML fields are found present for the username and password, the user
      will be logged in, and the original password protected URL will be returned
      to the user as a GET request.</p>

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<h2><a name="inlinepreservebody" id="inlinepreservebody">Inline Login with Body Preservation</a></h2>

      <p>A limitation of the inline login technique described above is that should an
      HTML form POST have resulted in the request to authenticate or
      reauthenticate, the
      contents of the original form posted by the browser will be lost. Depending on
      the function of the website, this could present significant inconvenience for the
      end user.</p>

      <p><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code> addresses this by allowing the method and body
      of the original request to be embedded in the login form. If authentication
      is successful, the original method and body will be retried by Apache httpd, preserving
      the state of the original request.</p>

      <p>To enable body preservation, add three additional fields to the login form as
      per the example below.</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Example with body preservation</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-html">&lt;form method="POST" action=""&gt;
  Username: &lt;input type="text" name="httpd_username" value="" /&gt;
  Password: &lt;input type="password" name="httpd_password" value="" /&gt;
  &lt;input type="submit" name="login" value="Login" /&gt;
  <br />  <strong>&lt;input type="hidden" name="httpd_method" value="POST" /&gt;
  &lt;input type="hidden" name="httpd_mimetype" value="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" /&gt;
  &lt;input type="hidden" name="httpd_body" value="name1=value1&amp;name2=value2" /&gt;</strong><br />
&lt;/form&gt;</pre>
</div>

      <p>How the method, mimetype and body of the original request are embedded within the
      login form will depend on the platform and technology being used within the website.
      </p>

      <p>One option is to use the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_include.html">mod_include</a></code> module along with the
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_request.html#keptbodysize">KeptBodySize</a></code> directive, along with a suitable
      CGI script to embed the variables in the form.</p>

      <p>Another option is to render the login form using a CGI script or other dynamic
      technology.</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>CGI example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">        AuthFormProvider file
        ErrorDocument 401 "/cgi-bin/login.cgi"
        ...</pre>
</div>

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<h2><a name="loggingout" id="loggingout">Logging Out</a></h2>

      <p>To enable a user to log out of a particular session, configure a page to
      be handled by the <var>form-logout-handler</var>. Any attempt to access this
      URL will cause the username and password to be removed from the current
      session, effectively logging the user out.</p>

      <p>By setting the
      <code class="directive"><a href="#authformlogoutlocation">AuthFormLogoutLocation</a></code> directive,
      a URL can be specified that the browser will be redirected to on successful
      logout. This URL might explain to the user that they have been logged out, and
      give the user the option to log in again.</p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Basic logout example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">SetHandler form-logout-handler
AuthName realm
AuthFormLogoutLocation "http://example.com/loggedout.html"
Session On
SessionCookieName session path=/</pre>
</div>

      <p>Note that logging a user out does not delete the session; it merely removes
      the username and password from the session. If this results in an empty session,
      the net effect will be the removal of that session, but this is not
      guaranteed. If you want to guarantee the removal of a session, set the
      <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_session.html#sessionmaxage">SessionMaxAge</a></code> directive to a small
      value, like 1 (setting the directive to zero would mean no session age limit).
      </p>

      <div class="example"><h3>Basic session expiry example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">SetHandler form-logout-handler
AuthFormLogoutLocation "http://example.com/loggedout.html"
Session On
SessionMaxAge 1
SessionCookieName session path=/</pre>
</div>

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<h2><a name="urlencoding" id="urlencoding">Usernames and Passwords</a></h2>
    <p>Note that form submission involves URLEncoding the form data:
    in this case the username and password.  You should therefore
    pick usernames and passwords that avoid characters that are
    URLencoded in form submission, or you may get unexpected results.</p>
    </div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormAuthoritative" id="AuthFormAuthoritative">AuthFormAuthoritative</a> <a name="authformauthoritative" id="authformauthoritative">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Sets whether authorization and authentication are passed to
lower level modules</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormAuthoritative On|Off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormAuthoritative On</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>AuthConfig</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>Normally, each authorization module listed in <code class="directive"><a href="#authformprovider">AuthFormProvider</a></code> will attempt
    to verify the user, and if the user is not found in any provider,
    access will be denied. Setting the
    <code class="directive">AuthFormAuthoritative</code> directive explicitly
    to <code>Off</code> allows for both authentication and
    authorization to be passed on to other non-provider-based modules
    if there is <strong>no userID</strong> or <strong>rule</strong>
    matching the supplied userID.  This should only be necessary when
    combining <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth_form.html">mod_auth_form</a></code> with third-party modules
    that are not configured with the <code class="directive"><a href="#authformprovider">AuthFormProvider</a></code>
    directive.  When using such modules, the order of processing
    is determined in the modules' source code and is not configurable.</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormBody" id="AuthFormBody">AuthFormBody</a> <a name="authformbody" id="authformbody">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The name of a form field carrying the body of the request to attempt on successful login</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormBody <var>fieldname</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>httpd_body</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmethod">AuthFormMethod</a></code> directive specifies
    the name of an HTML field which, if present, will contain the method of the request to
    to submit should login be successful.</p>

    <p>By populating the form with fields described by
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmethod">AuthFormMethod</a></code>,
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmimetype">AuthFormMimetype</a></code> and
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformbody">AuthFormBody</a></code>, a website can retry
    a request that may have been interrupted by the login screen, or by a session
    timeout.</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormDisableNoStore" id="AuthFormDisableNoStore">AuthFormDisableNoStore</a> <a name="authformdisablenostore" id="authformdisablenostore">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Disable the CacheControl no-store header on the login page</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormDisableNoStore <var>On|Off</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormDisableNoStore Off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformdisablenostore">AuthFormDisableNoStore</a></code> flag
    disables the sending of a <code>Cache-Control no-store</code> header with the
    error 401 page returned when the user is not yet logged in. The purpose of the header
    is to make it difficult for an <code>ecmascript</code> application to attempt to resubmit the
    login form, and reveal the username and password to the backend application. Disable
    at your own risk.</p>


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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormFakeBasicAuth" id="AuthFormFakeBasicAuth">AuthFormFakeBasicAuth</a> <a name="authformfakebasicauth" id="authformfakebasicauth">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Fake a Basic Authentication header</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormFakeBasicAuth <var>On|Off</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormFakeBasicAuth Off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformfakebasicauth">AuthFormFakeBasicAuth</a></code> flag
    determines whether a <code>Basic Authentication</code> header will be added to
    the request headers. This can be used to expose the username and password to
    an underlying application, without the underlying application having to be aware
    of how the login was achieved.</p>


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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormLocation" id="AuthFormLocation">AuthFormLocation</a> <a name="authformlocation" id="authformlocation">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The name of a form field carrying a URL to redirect to on successful login</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormLocation <var>fieldname</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>httpd_location</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformlocation">AuthFormLocation</a></code> directive specifies
    the name of an HTML field which, if present, will contain a URL to redirect the browser to
    should login be successful.</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation" id="AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation">AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation</a> <a name="authformloginrequiredlocation" id="authformloginrequiredlocation">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The URL of the page to be redirected to should login be required</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later. The use of the expression
parser has been added in 2.4.4.</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformloginrequiredlocation">AuthFormLoginRequiredLocation</a></code> directive
    specifies the URL to redirect to should the user not be authorised to view a page. The value
    is parsed using the <a href="../expr.html">ap_expr</a> parser before being sent to the client.
    By default, if a user is not authorised to view a page, the HTTP response code
    <code>HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED</code> will be returned with the page specified by the
    <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code> directive. This directive overrides this
    default.</p>

    <p>Use this directive if you have a dedicated login page to redirect users to.</p>


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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation" id="AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation">AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation</a> <a name="authformloginsuccesslocation" id="authformloginsuccesslocation">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The URL of the page to be redirected to should login be successful</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later. The use of the expression
parser has been added in 2.4.4.</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformloginsuccesslocation">AuthFormLoginSuccessLocation</a></code> directive
    specifies the URL to redirect to should the user have logged in successfully. The value is
    parsed using the <a href="../expr.html">ap_expr</a> parser before being sent to the client.
    This directive can be overridden if a form field has been defined containing another URL
    using the <code class="directive"><a href="#authformlocation">AuthFormLocation</a></code> directive.</p>

    <p>Use this directive if you have a dedicated login URL, and you have not embedded the
    destination page in the login form.</p>


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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormLogoutLocation" id="AuthFormLogoutLocation">AuthFormLogoutLocation</a> <a name="authformlogoutlocation" id="authformlogoutlocation">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The URL to redirect to after a user has logged out</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormLogoutLocation <var>uri</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later. The use of the expression
parser has been added in 2.4.4.</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformlogoutlocation">AuthFormLogoutLocation</a></code> directive
    specifies the URL of a page on the server to redirect to should the user attempt to log
    out. The value is parsed using the <a href="../expr.html">ap_expr</a> parser before
    being sent to the client.</p>

    <p>When a URI is accessed that is served by the handler <code>form-logout-handler</code>,
    the page specified by this directive will be shown to the end user. For example:</p>

    <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/logout"&gt;
    SetHandler form-logout-handler
    AuthFormLogoutLocation "http://example.com/loggedout.html"
    Session on
    #...
&lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
</div>

    <p>An attempt to access the URI <var>/logout/</var> will result in the user being logged
    out, and the page <var>/loggedout.html</var> will be displayed. Make sure that the page
    <var>loggedout.html</var> is not password protected, otherwise the page will not be
    displayed.</p>


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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormMethod" id="AuthFormMethod">AuthFormMethod</a> <a name="authformmethod" id="authformmethod">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The name of a form field carrying the method of the request to attempt on successful login</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormMethod <var>fieldname</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>httpd_method</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmethod">AuthFormMethod</a></code> directive specifies
    the name of an HTML field which, if present, will contain the method of the request to
    to submit should login be successful.</p>

    <p>By populating the form with fields described by
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmethod">AuthFormMethod</a></code>,
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmimetype">AuthFormMimetype</a></code> and
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformbody">AuthFormBody</a></code>, a website can retry
    a request that may have been interrupted by the login screen, or by a session
    timeout.</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormMimetype" id="AuthFormMimetype">AuthFormMimetype</a> <a name="authformmimetype" id="authformmimetype">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The name of a form field carrying the mimetype of the body of the request to attempt on successful login</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormMimetype <var>fieldname</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>httpd_mimetype</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmethod">AuthFormMethod</a></code> directive specifies
    the name of an HTML field which, if present, will contain the
    mimetype of the request to submit should login be successful.</p>

    <p>By populating the form with fields described by
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmethod">AuthFormMethod</a></code>,
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmimetype">AuthFormMimetype</a></code> and
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformbody">AuthFormBody</a></code>, a website can retry
    a request that may have been interrupted by the login screen, or by a session
    timeout.</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormPassword" id="AuthFormPassword">AuthFormPassword</a> <a name="authformpassword" id="authformpassword">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The name of a form field carrying the login password</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormPassword <var>fieldname</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>httpd_password</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformpassword">AuthFormPassword</a></code> directive specifies
    the name of an HTML field which, if present, will contain the password to be used to log
    in.</p>

</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormProvider" id="AuthFormProvider">AuthFormProvider</a> <a name="authformprovider" id="authformprovider">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Sets the authentication provider(s) for this location</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormProvider <var>provider-name</var>
[<var>provider-name</var>] ...</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormProvider file</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory, .htaccess</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Override">Override:</a></th><td>AuthConfig</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive">AuthFormProvider</code> directive sets
    which provider is used to authenticate the users for this location.
    The default <code>file</code> provider is implemented
    by the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html">mod_authn_file</a></code> module.  Make sure
    that the chosen provider module is present in the server.</p>

    <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/secure"&gt;
    AuthType form
    AuthName "private area"
    AuthFormProvider  dbm
    AuthDBMType        SDBM
    AuthDBMUserFile    "/www/etc/dbmpasswd"
    Require            valid-user
    #...
&lt;/Location&gt;</pre>
</div>

    <p>Providers are implemented by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbm.html">mod_authn_dbm</a></code>,
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_file.html">mod_authn_file</a></code>, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_dbd.html">mod_authn_dbd</a></code>,
    <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authnz_ldap.html">mod_authnz_ldap</a></code> and <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_authn_socache.html">mod_authn_socache</a></code>.</p>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormSitePassphrase" id="AuthFormSitePassphrase">AuthFormSitePassphrase</a> <a name="authformsitepassphrase" id="authformsitepassphrase">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Bypass authentication checks for high traffic sites</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormSitePassphrase <var>secret</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>none</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformsitepassphrase">AuthFormSitePassphrase</a></code> directive
    specifies a passphrase which, if present in the user session, causes Apache httpd to
    bypass authentication checks for the given URL. It can be used on high traffic websites
    to reduce the load induced on authentication infrastructure.</p>

    <p>The passphrase can be inserted into a user session by adding this directive to the
    configuration for the <var>form-login-handler</var>. The <var>form-login-handler</var>
    itself will always run the authentication checks, regardless of whether a passphrase
    is specified or not.</p>

    <div class="warning"><h3>Warning</h3>
      <p>If the session is exposed to the user through the use of
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session_cookie.html">mod_session_cookie</a></code>, and the session is not protected with
      <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_session_crypto.html">mod_session_crypto</a></code>, the passphrase is open to potential exposure
      through a dictionary attack. Regardless of how the session is configured,
      ensure that this directive is not used within URL spaces where private user data
      could be exposed, or sensitive transactions can be conducted. Use at own risk.</p>
    </div>


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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormSize" id="AuthFormSize">AuthFormSize</a> <a name="authformsize" id="authformsize">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The largest size of the form in bytes that will be parsed for the login details</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormSize <var>size</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>8192</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
</table>
    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformsize">AuthFormSize</a></code> directive specifies
    the maximum size of the body of the request that will be parsed to find the login form.</p>

    <p>If a login request arrives that exceeds this size, the whole request will be aborted
    with the HTTP response code <code>HTTP_REQUEST_TOO_LARGE</code>.</p>

    <p>If you have populated the form with fields described by
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmethod">AuthFormMethod</a></code>,
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformmimetype">AuthFormMimetype</a></code> and
    <code class="directive"><a href="#authformbody">AuthFormBody</a></code>, you probably want to set this
    field to a similar size as the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_request.html#keptbodysize">KeptBodySize</a></code>
    directive.</p>


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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="AuthFormUsername" id="AuthFormUsername">AuthFormUsername</a> <a name="authformusername" id="authformusername">Directive</a></h2>
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<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The name of a form field carrying the login username</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>AuthFormUsername <var>fieldname</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>httpd_username</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>directory</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Base</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_auth_form</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in Apache HTTP Server 2.3.0 and later</td></tr>
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    <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="#authformusername">AuthFormUsername</a></code> directive specifies
    the name of an HTML field which, if present, will contain the username to be used to log
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