Protecting a Mongrel site with Apache htauth

Rails
1

Hi,

We have a mongrel site running behind Apache using ProxyBalancer to
manage our
cluster. We would like to use HTTP Authentication to restrict access to
the
site, but Apache’s mod_auth only protects a directory - this is a
problem
because ProxyBalancer siphons off all the Rails requests before mod_auth
has a
chance to kick in.

Is it possible to restrict access to the site with our current setup?

Thanks,
Gareth

2

Is it not possible to have a Location directive instead of Directory
to apply auth to all requests? A while ago I got something like the
following working:

<Location / >
AllowOverride None
AuthName “My Rails App”
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile “/path/to/file”

require valid-user

Paul.