Redes de Computadores : Enable Basic Authentication

segunda-feira, 18 de abril de 2016

Enable Basic Authentication

2014/07/23

	Enable Basic Authentication to limit access on specific web pages.
[1]	For example, set Basic Authentication setting under the directory [/var/www/html/auth-basic].

[root@www ~]#

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/auth_basic.conf

# create new

<Directory /var/www/html/auth-basic>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Basic Authentication"
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/.htpasswd
require valid-user
</Directory>

# add a user : create a new file with "-c" ( add the "-c" option only for the initial registration )

[root@www ~]#

htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/conf/.htpasswd cent

New password:

# set password

Re-type new password:

# confirm

Adding password for user cent

[root@www ~]#

systemctl restart httpd

[root@www ~]#

mkdir /var/www/html/auth-basic

[root@www ~]#

vi /var/www/html/auth-basic/index.html

# create a test page

<html>
<body>
<div style="width: 100%; font-size: 40px; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">
Test Page for Basic Auth
</div>
</body>
</html>

[2]	Access to the test page from a client computer with a web browser. Then authentication is required like follows as a setting, answer with a user added in [1].