Category: apache

How to access protect folder by apache HTTP Basic Authentication using cURL

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Normally if you try to access protect folder by Basic Authentication without proper credentials you will get 401 Unauthorized error:

Example:

curl -s https://yourwebserver.com/mysecure

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”>
<html><head>
<title>401 Unauthorized</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Unauthorized</h1>
<p>This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested.

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How to protect a web folder using HTTP Basic Authentication with Apache2

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Run the following to create a password file and enter your password

htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/passwd/myverysecrepasswords admin

-c flag means create a new file

Edit the following accordingly your needs and append into your httpd.conf file

<Directory "/var/www/html/mysecure">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Protected Files"
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwd/myverysecrepasswords
Require user admin
</Directory>

 

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