Hello!
I got Dokuwiki up and running, wasn't very hard to do. :-)
I am using lighttpd, because Apache is much to big for the machine. Dokuwiki offers a nice ACL administration, which I use to keep unregistered users out. This works pretty well, except for the fact, that every one who connects to he machine sees Dokuwiki's first page, telling them they need to be logged in to use the wiki. Unregistered users can't even read any page beyond this one.
This is pretty nice, but if possible, I'd prefer the same behaviour as with Apache + htaccess: as soon as a user gets connected to the machine, he is asked for a user and a password,
before he is shown any page. I already know that this possible somehow in Lighttpd, I only haven't found an easy howto yet.
But before I try to realize this kind of access control, I would like to know if it will also be possible, to use the entered credentials as login data to Dokuwiki, so the user does not have to login twice.
In other words:
I type
https://my.machine.org/dokuwiki and I will be asked for a valid user name and a password. Only after that, I will see Dokuwiki's starting page, but I will not have to login to Dokuwiki itself, because Dokuwiki uses the user name I entered before, when creating changes logs etc.
It is very important that Dokuwiki can determine the user who changes a page. So if my wish can not be realized, I would stick with Dokiwikis ACL.
Thanks in advance for any help and hints.