Use Basic Auth2015/05/18

	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:~#

aptitude -y install apache2-utils

root@www:~#

mkdir /var/www/html/auth-basic

root@www:~#

vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/auth-basic.conf

# create new

<Directory /var/www/html/auth-basic>
    AuthType Basic
    AuthName "Basic Authentication"
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.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/apache2/.htpasswd debian

New password:

# set password

Re-type new password:

# confrim

Adding password for user debian

root@www:~#

a2ensite auth-basic

Enabling site auth-basic.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  service apache2 reload

root@www:~#

systemctl restart apache2

# create a test page

root@www:~#

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

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

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

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