The other day I decided to set up a fresh VPS for few of my small apps. Essentially it's a CentOs 7 box with nginx which serves one static site when requests come on one domain (in few different contexts/locations with different settings for each of them) and proxies traffic to a Node app on a different domain. Since CentOS7 doesn't have httpd-tools package installed by default we'll need to install that first: yum -y install httpd-tools Next - use it to generate password. We will want to output this to a .htpasswd file. Assuming username "exampleuser": htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd exampleuser This will prompt you for password which will be later encrypted. Then add these two lines to your nginx config (location or server block): auth_basic "Restricted"; auth_basic_user_file /your-app-path/.htpasswd; Restart nginx to pick up the changes and you should be asked for password when you next try to reach that URL. sudo systemctl restart nginx Extra... more
HTTP Basic Auth with nginx on CentOS 7
10 February 2016 by
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