Bypass .htaccess login when user has a specific cookie SetEnvIf

Question

This is how my .htaccess looks like:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "FORBIDDEN AREA"
AuthUserfile "../htdocs/site/.htpasswd"
AuthGroupFile /
Require valid-user

#Allow valid-user
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
SetEnvIf HTTP_COOKIE my_cookie_name norequire
Allow from env=norequire
Satisfy any

My user has a cookie, and if his cookie has a name "my_cookie_name" I would like that he bypasses the .htaccess login (authentication) so that he doesn't need to enter his username and password. I tried with SetEnvIF but it does't seem to work, or am I doing something wrong. If anyone has some suggestion I would be grateful to hear it?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use:

SetEnvIfNoCase Cookie PHPSESSID=.* PASS=1

AuthType Basic
AuthName "FORBIDDEN AREA"
AuthUserfile "../htdocs/site/.htpasswd"
AuthGroupFile /
Require valid-user

#Allow valid-user
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from env=PASS
Satisfy any