Basic Authentication:
1. Create user database with htpasswd
htpasswd is a program which create user database. In this example we will create users in /etc/apache2/users
$ htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/users test ===========> Here test is username
2. Server side configuration: Here in httpd.conf or your virtual host configuration file between <Directory … > </Directory> Give following settings
In our example our DocumentRoot is /var/www/neelesh
<Directory /var/www/neelesh>
AllowOverride AuthConfig
…..
….
</Directory>
3. Create .htaccess file under /var/www/neelesh and put following entries into that
AuthName "restricted stuff"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/users
require valid-user
