htpasswd with Nginx

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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