and access control based on hostname, IP address or characteristics
of the request, but is not part of the authentication provider
system.</p>
system. For backwards compatibility with the mod_access, there is
a new module <codeclass="module"><ahref="../mod/mod_access_compat.html">mod_access_compat</a></code>.</p>
<p>You probably also want to take a look at the <ahref="access.html">Access Control</a> howto, which discusses the
various ways to control access to your server.</p>
@@ -138,6 +146,13 @@ module from each group.</p>
structure of your server, in order to know where some files are
kept. This should not be terribly difficult, and I'll try to
make this clear when we come to that point.</p>
<p>You will also need to make sure that the modules
<codeclass="module"><ahref="../mod/mod_authn_core.html">mod_authn_core</a></code> and <codeclass="module"><ahref="../mod/mod_authz_core.html">mod_authz_core</a></code>
have either been built into the httpd binary or loaded by the
httpd.conf configuration file. Both of these modules provide core
directives and functionality that are critical to the configuration
and use of authentication and authorization in the web server.</p>
<codeclass="module"><ahref="../mod/mod_auth_basic.html">mod_auth_basic</a></code> and <codeclass="module"><ahref="../mod/mod_authz_host.html">mod_authz_host</a></code> which
contain some more information about how this all works.
<codeclass="module"><ahref="../mod/mod_authn_alias.html">mod_authn_alias</a></code> can also help in simplifying certain
authentication configurations.</p>
The directive <codeclass="directive"><ahref="../mod/mod_authn_core.html#<authnprovideralias>"><AuthnProviderAlias></a></code>
can also help in simplifying certain authentication configurations.</p>
<p>And you may want to look at the <ahref="access.html">Access
Control</a> howto, which discusses a number of related topics.</p>