node.js authentication php auth_user

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I want to use node.js for file uploading at my company. The current file uploader they have is a simple html 5 page with a php script backend that is php_auth_user to authenticate. My boss loves the idea of node.js for file upload but is unsure about how we would authenticate / authorize this file uploader.

I have figured out how to forward to my node server from apache at these two sites:

Apache + Node.js + mod_proxy. How to route one domain to :3000 and another to :80

http://thatextramile.be/blog/2012/01/hosting-a-node-js-site-through-apache

However, I can't figure out how I would access the php_auth_user server variable in my node application.

Any ideas?

Edit:

I am not looking for authentication for node.js. i will be using one of the ldap authentication libraries already out there. What I want is a way for my node server to be able to pick up the php_user_auth and php_user_pwd server variables sent during our pre-existing http basic auth. I will then use those variables to authenticate against the ldap in the background.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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Here are some helpful things I found:

popular authentication for node.js passport

node.js modules - authentication

Also this ties together some interesting tech - orchestrate

This may help you in accessing your PHP authentication variable - stackoverflow

edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

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answered Sep 15 '14 at 18:26

totallytotallyamazing

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I realize that node.js has module that handle authentication. My issue is that we don't want a seperate authentication for this application. Our users are already using basic auth to log in and I want to be able to use that username / password entered in to sign into this app. – Bill Garrison Sep 15 '14 at 18:48
@BillGarrison I just added another link that may help. Just edited the last link in my post. – totallytotallyamazing Sep 15 '14 at 18:51
last link is exactly what i was looking for. Thanks! – Bill Garrison Sep 15 '14 at 19:05
@BillGarrison I'm glad that helped! I am getting ready to set up some node.js authentication too. – totallytotallyamazing Sep 15 '14 at 20:26

node.js authentication php auth_user

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