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How to secure your Nginx HTTP Server using Basic HTTP Authentication

Prerequisites

apt-get install nginx apache2-utils

Nginx Configuration

Generate the username/password pairs using htpasswd

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd user1
sudo htpasswd /etc/apache2/.htpasswd user2

or use this website https://www.htaccessredirect.net/.

The Nginx Configuration would look like this

location /api {
    satisfy all;
    auth_basic           "Administrator’s Area";
    auth_basic_user_file /etc/apache2/.htpasswd;
    deny  192.168.1.2;
    allow 192.168.1.1/24;
    allow 127.0.0.1;
    deny  all;
}

The satisfy here means that both the IP and the passwords have to match

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