That is one way, and I agree it's ugly, but Apache came out with form-based authentication in version 2.4, https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_form.h

That is one way, and I agree it's ugly, but Apache came out with form-based authentication in version 2.4, https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_form.html https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_form.html