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How to Set Site Authentication
Authentication is the process of confirming a user's identity, and it provides a way to ensure that legitimate users create content on your site. The steps in the methods below (Web GUI and By Hand) are interchangeable. You can manually create a database file and then load it via the WebConsole, and vice versa.
Method 1. Setup by Web GUI
Step 1.Create Authorization Realms DB
We will create a new one as an example.
Set DB Type to Password File
.
Set:
- Realm name, e.g.
TEST
- DB Location, e.g.
$VH_ROOT/conf/TESTDB
Step 2.Create Auth User
Step 3. Add Access Require by Context
Add a Context and select type as Static
Set:
- URI
/
- Location
$VH_ROOT/html/
- Accessible
Yes
- Realm
TEST
- Access Allowed
*
Method 2. Setup By Hand
Step1. Create Account Through htpasswd
Run the following command to generate TESTDB
file from console:
htpasswd -c /PATH_YOU_WANT/TESTDB TEST
Then enter the password (e.g.TEST
) two times.
Step 2. Add Access Require by htaccess
Add the following rules into your .htaccess file.
AuthType Basic AuthName "My Protected Area" AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd Require valid-user
AuthName
can be set to anything, e.g.TEST
AuthUserFile
needs a valid file, e.g./usr/local/lsws/DEFAULT/conf/TESTDB