Posted on Sunday, 31st May 2009 by Balazs
Authentication in Apache is done through htaccess, either from the configuration file, or from the .htaccess file in a given directory. Note that only full directories can be easily protected with this method.
Here is how: (first log in to the shell, as this method only works if
you have shell access)
$ cd .../html/protected_dir $ cat > .htaccess AuthType Basic Authname "Protected KLC directory" AuthUserFile ../../control/htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/null Require valid-user +d $ htpasswd -c ../../control/htpasswd user_name [give passwd]
After the file is created for the first time, to
add more users:
$ htpasswd ../../control/htpasswd user_name
There are also more sophisticated authentication schemes available, that allow database driven authentication. Feel free to contact me for more information about those solutions.
Tags: Apache, htaccess, htpasswd
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