Hey folks, so this comes up really often with Rackspace customers, how to add AuthType Basic HTTP authentication. This is akin to an additional user\/pass dialog box which appears when navigating to the url. It is really easy to create a new password:<\/p>\n
htpasswd -c \/etc\/httpd\/.htpasswd-private username\r\n<\/pre>\nPlease note .htpasswd-private can be anything, however it’s better to make it a hidden file by prefixing with a . dot, also important to ensure that the password file isn’t in a web documentroot, the file should have user and group root root, but that should be done automatically when you create the file with root user.<\/p>\n
This is what I added to phpmyadmin configuration file in \/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/phpMyAdmin.conf<\/p>\n
\r\n<Location \"\/phpMyAdmin\/\">\r\nAuthType Basic\r\nAuthName \"Private Server\"\r\nAuthUserFile \/etc\/httpd\/.htpasswd-private\r\nRequire valid-user\r\n<\/Location>\r\n<\/code>\r\n<\/pre>\nYou could do the same for WordPress;<\/p>\n
<Location \"\/wp-admin\/\">\r\nAuthType Basic\r\nAuthName \"Private Server\"\r\nAuthUserFile \/etc\/httpd\/.htpasswd-private\r\nRequire valid-user\r\n<\/Location>\r\n<\/pre>\nPlease note that I am using Location, but you can apply the same thing within a directive instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hey folks, so this comes up really often with Rackspace customers, how to add AuthType Basic HTTP authentication. This is akin to an additional user\/pass dialog box which appears when navigating to the url. It is really easy to create … Continue reading