Basic Auth, short for Basic Authentication, is a simple and widely-used authentication mechanism in HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) that allows a client to provide a username and password when making a request to a server. This mechanism involves encoding the username and password in base64 format and including the encoded string in the request header.
Basic Auth is easy to implement and supported by most web servers and clients. However, it has some security vulnerabilities and is not recommended for use in applications that require high security. It is often used as a fallback mechanism when more secure authentication methods, such as OAuth or JWT (JSON Web Token), are not available or feasible.
Install apache utils sudo apt-get install apache2-utils Add user sudo htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd foobar Enter password when prompted. Edit nginx configuration for your site in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/: server { listen 80; server_name .example.com; # globally set basic auth for server name auth_basic “Restricted”; #For Basic Auth auth_basic_user_file Read more…