Basic Authentication2014/08/25

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

[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" ⇒ only add "-c" at the first time. Do not add it 2nd time to add users)

[root@www ~]#

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

New password:

# set password

Re-type new password:
Adding password for user cent

[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>

[root@www ~]#

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [ OK ]

[2]	Access to the test page with a Web browser on Client and authenticate with a user which is added with htpasswd.

[3]	Just accessed.

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