How to Password Protect Apache with Basic Authentication

Learn how to password protect your Apache website or a folder with basic HTTP authentication. This method does not require htaccess.
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[@brymstoner]

I remember doing this back in '03 on my first home-based Apache install. Fond memories indeed!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Throwback :)

[@camy_dev]

thank you, I was struggling for hours trying to get it, I had my own config file for that site and according to sites enabled it was indeed the one active but for some reason i couldn't get it to work, simply following your example I copy and pasted my directory into the default config and it worked right away, strange but it working ty

[@fotografm]

Thank you for that clear information, Tony. It worked for me first time and then I managed to extend it to nginx to password protect my Jitsi server (with a little help from your blog). I am very grateful to you :-)

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Nice work! Happy to help Simon

[@chandratirta8240]

Hello guyss...
Have a nice day 😎
So, I need help about this .,
I have a question .,
I've tried this method to protect the folder and it's good, but after entering the password the first time and when the page is reloaded it won't ask for the password again (most likely the password is stored in the browser cache).
what I want to know is how do I make it so that when the page is reloaded or when I open a new tab with the same URL (more than 1 tab) a popup will still appear, enter username & password ???

[@SuperMBARutgers2013]

You are an awesome teach. Thank you sir.

[@benfau9992]

Thank you for your tutorial

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome 😊

[@majidderkaoui]

Thank you Mr.Tony

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@Satyakibat3694]

Hey tony,
How you creat this awesome web page ? Please make a vedio on it 😃.

[@maliklafia4077]

Thanks you Bro. You've saved me today

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You’re welcome!

[@laci272]

Good video, you could have mentioned .htaccess folder password protection, too, for people who are not comfortable editing the host file, or have a control panel that doesn't support basic auth out of the box..

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks, good suggestion

[@laci272]

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[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@laci272 thank you so much!!!

[@fouadchaar4021]

thank you Tony. how can i call solr (with basic authentication) from application.?

[@subhamthemusicalguy8851]

Thank you so much, You saved my day.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@HoumanAlmassi]

Thanks

[@DanangSuprastiya]

what if using centos? where is the configuration? do you have the tutorial?

[@rootuserjarvis]

How to do the same thing with docker without using Nginx?

[@darphaprothon20]

will it work if i remove admin and keep /var/www/html/ to block the main page ?

[@llamingo]

How safe is this from brute force attacks?

[@kamalchan9756]

Thank you

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome

[@johnstonestuart4332]

Great video...KUdos
i got a .db file in some directory
how can i display the contents on apache site

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Is it a MySQL database export file? You'll need to spin up a MySQL server and retrieve the data from there

[@miakurdi]

Thank You

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome

[@coreysmith6116]

How is the your var/www/html file structured though? I did this with a basic index.html file just saying "This is a test page". I would like to have a sign in prior to users hitting that page, but everytime I try, it doesn't ask for anything.....idk what I am doing wrong.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

If you have /var/www/html/index.html and follow the instructions in this video, you should be prompted for credentials before a user is able to access the page

[@longrolstral]

Did you figure it out? I have the same problem: no authentication at all.

[@longrolstral]

It didn't work. Nothing changed regarding accessing the directory. I did restart apache2.
Perhaps there's something wrong with Apache Server.

[@valou9820]

Hi, is it possible to redirect someone who failed authentification ro an other page ?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Probably but off the top of my head I don't know a solution

[@1UniverseGames]

Nice video, is it possible to make a web server on Ubuntu, any helps if I want to do for myself one

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes of course ruclips.net/video/2HYb9ZegNsg/видео.html

[@dev_manish]

Since Openlitespeed and Apache are quite similar, do you think this would work on Openlitespeed as well.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

That's a good question. I plan to test this out soon

[@dev_manish]

@@TonyTeachesTech As always, I'll be waiting ✌🏼

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@LyleSpringer Perhaps this one? openlitespeed.org/kb/user-authentication-through-realms/

[@whazitcrease4455]

Thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome

[@rajeshmoravaneni1360]

Thank You

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome Rajesh

[@rajeshmoravaneni1360]

@@TonyTeachesTech Hello brother I have one request. would you make a video onc omplete details how .htaccess file can be useful to protect website like(Indexing disabled and specific file access denied ) Please make