htpasswd with Nginx1 min read

Hi All, this document deals with the web page security using

•  Prerequisites

• we use this is found in the apache- package

  sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-utils
• Now we create a password file, for the first time we need to use -C option to create the specified file, We mention the user name at the end of the command, it will prompt to enter password

  htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd <user_name>
  
  htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd techrunnr

  

• If you want to add another new user then remove -c

  htpasswd  /etc/apache2/.htpasswd techrunnr1
• Now we are going to mention the file into the configuration, mention the file location as show below (In this am securing )

  server {
                  location /techrunnr/ {
                          proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/;
                          auth_basic "Restricted Content";
                          auth_basic_user_file /etc/apache2/.htpasswd;
          }
          }

  auth_basic “Restricted Content”;
  auth_basic_user_file /etc/apache2/; lines are added into the file

• Now restart the service

  systemctl restart nginx
• Now go to the http://localhost/techrunnr/, It will prompt for a user name and password, Now your page is secured

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