Why use IronLogin over Apaches built-in authentication?
Here are the advantages of using IronLogin Lite over Apache’s built-in authentication: • Instead of a popup dialog box the user sees a skinable in-page login dialog with a customized welcome message. This makes for a much better user experience. • You can disable logins at any time with a simple configuation change. The site is then not accessible except to an optional list of users. This allows you to turn off customer access to a site while still allowing administrative and developer access. • You can allow users to logout via a skinnable in-page logout dialog. This ensures better security for your applications. Here are the advantages of using IronLogin Pro, which is currently under development, over Apache’s built-in authentication: • A pluggable backend authentication system will allow you to check user credentials in your LDAP or Active Directory server, an internal database or an internal webservice via REST or SOAP interfaces. • A web-based adminstration interface will allow yo