Apache2 htpasswd Notes for Basic HTTP(s) Auth

By Dag J, on February 2nd, 2018

Creating a password file while adding a user for the first time:

# htpasswd -c /path/to/passwordfile username
	^ Drop the parameter '-c' if adding a user to an existing file (or it will recreate/overwrite).

Deleting a user:

htpasswd -d passwordfile username

Website <Directory> directive in its configuration file to allow .htaccess full override:

AllowOverride All

.htaccess content (place in folder to be protected):

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Only authorized access"
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile "/path/to/passwordfile"
Require user username