So, I have a dekiwiki I use for some purpose or another, I wanted it to be used via https to ensure security (just general paranoia). That was fine to implement, however it needed authentication otherwise whats the point! So, I sat down and tried to figure out how to authenticate Apache2 against a MySQL database. There are lots of tools to do this, but luckily for me none of them work with Dekiwiki because the site doesn't store it's password in any normal way.

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