I got a requirement from one of my clients to setup a staging server that has a HTTP authentication, behind an ELB. but because of authentication it fails in the ELB health check. I did the following steps to configure it with HTTP authentication.<\/p>\n
Few more tricks that can be used to setup HTTP authentication using nginx.<\/p>\n
Create a htpasswd file with username : myuser & password :\u00a0mypassword<\/strong><\/p>\n Create a htpasswd that contains username and encrypted password. To create that file we need to install php CLI tools or it can be created from some other tools too.<\/p>\n [shell]sudo apt-get install php5-cli Basic password protection<\/strong><\/p>\n Add below code into the Nginx site configuration file that will enable authentication on the complete site.<\/p>\n [shell]location \/ { \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Open-access for a single IP, password-protect for everyone else<\/strong><\/p>\n This will allow you to disable password for a single IP and enable password for the others.\u00a0This method is great during project development when you want to give access for a single IP.<\/p>\n Open access for multiple IPs, password-protect for everyone else<\/strong><\/p>\n That will allow you to disable password protection for multiple IPs.<\/p>\n Password protection for everything except a single file<\/strong><\/p>\n In a case you want to disable password protection for a single file only. I have used this technique countless times.<\/p>\n Password protect a single file<\/strong><\/p>\n This will allow access to a single file while password-protecting everything else<\/p>\n Password protect a folder<\/strong><\/p>\n If you have a use case to protect multiple files in a folder, So instead of protect multiple files you can protect that complete folder directly.<\/p>\n [shell] I got a requirement from one of my clients to setup a staging server that has a HTTP authentication, behind an ELB. but because of authentication it fails in the ELB health check. I did the following steps to configure it with HTTP authentication. Create a single PHP or HTML file and disable HTTP authentication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1337,260,1336],"class_list":["post-11894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-http-authentication","tag-linux","tag-nginx"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nphp -a
\nphp > echo crypt(‘mypassword’, base64_encode(‘mypassword’));
\nbX6j7x3Ep6RnU
\necho ‘myuser:bX6j7x3Ep6RnU’ >> \/etc\/nginx\/htpasswd[\/shell]<\/p>\n
\n auth_basic "Restricted";
\n auth_basic_user_file \/etc\/nginx\/htpasswd;
\n}[\/shell]<\/p>\n
\n satisfy any
\n allow \u00a0*.*.*.* ;
\n deny all;
\n auth_basic "Restricted";
\n auth_basic_user_file \/etc\/nginx\/htpasswd;
\n}[\/shell]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nlocation \/ \u00a0{
\n satisfy any;
\n allow \u00a0*.*.*.* ;
\n allow \u00a0*.*.*.* ;
\n deny all;
\n auth_basic "Restricted";
\n auth_basic_user_file \/etc\/nginx\/htpasswd;
\n}[\/shell]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\nlocation \/ \u00a0{
\n auth_basic "Restricted";
\n auth_basic_user_file \/etc\/nginx\/htpasswd;
\n location \u00a0 \u00a0\/sample\/abc.html {
\n auth_basic off;
\n }
\n}[\/shell]<\/p>\n
\nlocation \/ \u00a0{
\n \u00a0 location \/sample\/abc.html \u00a0 {
\n auth_basic "Restricted";
\n auth_basic_user_file \/etc\/nginx\/htpasswd;
\n }
\n}[\/shell]<\/p>\n
\nlocation \/ \u00a0{
\n location \/sample\/ \u00a0{
\n \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 auth_basic "Restricted";
\n auth_basic_user_file \/etc\/nginx\/htpasswd;
\n }
\n}[\/shell]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"