Topic: user and group account management system for apache

[apachedon]

Hi Apache masters!!

I'm very new to Apache and have a question about user management.

I have built an application and plan to deploy it on the Amazon cloud. The application will run in web-browsers and be served by a webserver (e.g. Apache).

Since I plan to charge for use of the application, I need some sort of a user management mechanism for subscribers. Is there a third-party package (preferably free) which can be used as a front-end for such a configuration?

I have a few basic requirements:
1) Since there will be organizations which purchase subscriptions, it would be nice to be able to provide an administrator account to manage specific groups of users?
2) The administrator account mentioned in (1) should be able to create user accounts?
3) The administrator account for a group should be limited such that the administrator can only create up to N user accounts where N is a number specific to each group?


Thanks in advance for your answers,
Don

[James Blond]

It would be much easier if your application would to the user managment. Using apache auth would just give a 403 when access is denied and the maintenance would be hard IMHO. Most internet applications like the forum or a wordpress installation do user auth themself and not via apache.