Setting up Authenticated Web Servers

• install a manual for examples and syntax
• yum install -y httpd-manual
• httpd://localhost/manual
• Set up Basic Authentication
• htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/htpasswd erick
• type the passwword
• Create directory
• mkdir -p /srv/web/restricted
• Change the selinux security label of DocumentRoot.
• semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/srv/web(/.*)?"
• restorecon -R -v /srv/web
• Create index.html
• vim /srv/web/restricted/index.html
• Create virtual host
• vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/restricted.conf

<Directory /srv/web/restricted>

    AuthType Basic

    AuthName "Restricted Files"

    AuthBasicProvider file

    AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/htpasswd

    Require user erick

</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin root@restricted.example.com

    DocumentRoot "/srv/web/restricted"

    ServerName restricted.example.com

    ServerAlias www.restricted.example.com

    ErrorLog "logs/restricted-error_log"

    CustomLog "logs/restricted-access_log" combined

</VirtualHost>

• Restart httpd
• systemctl restart httpd