Basic Authentication 4

Protecting a Directory with Basic Authentication

  <Location /members_only>
    AuthName  development
    AuthType  Basic
    AuthUserFile   /www/etc/passwd
    AuthGroupFile  /www/etc/group
    require valid-user
  </Location>

Directives

AuthName

Name the configuration.

AuthType

Basic or Digest

AuthUserFile, AuthGroupFile

Password and group files.

require

User(s) or group(s) to allow access to

1. require valid-user
2. require user user1 user2 user3...
3. require group group1 group2 group3...

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