Setting up passworded directories on lighttpd

Wed, Sep 23, 2009

Linux

  1. Open your lighttpd.conf 
    nano /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

  2. If mod_auth isn't already in your server.modules list add it e.g 
        server.modules = (
    "mod_alias",
    "mod_accesslog",
    "mod_fastcgi",
    "mod_auth",
    "mod_cgi",
    "mod_expire",
    "mod_redirect"
    }

  3. Add the two following lines to your configuration 
    auth.backend = "htpasswd"
auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/home/lighttpd/htpasswd"

  4. For each directory add a block something similar to be one below 
    auth.require = (
                "/dir-name" => (
                        "method" => "basic",
                        "realm" => "Auth message to appear",
                        "require" => "valid-user"
                )
)

  5. for generating your htpasswd you'll need to install apache2-utils and then use htpasswd to generate it 
    apt-get install apache2-utils
htpasswd -c -m /home/lighttpd/htpasswd username

  6. Reload the lighttpd config and you should be good to go 
    /etc/init.d/lighttpd reload

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