Securing Your Application with HTTP Basic Authentication in Nginx

Introduction

In this guide, we’ll walk you through setting up HTTP Basic Authentication for your application using Nginx. This will help you add an extra layer of security by requiring a username and password to access your application.

Setup Instructions

Step 1: Install Apache Utilities

First, we need to install apache2-utils, which provides the htpasswd utility for creating password files. I’m using an Ubuntu machine, so I have installed apache2-utils using the following commands.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install …

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