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You can restrict access to your website or some parts of it by implementing a username/password authentication. Usernames and passwords are taken from a file created and populated by a password file creation tool, for example, apache2-utils.
sudo htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/.htpasswd admin or sudo htpasswd -c… Read more
You can restrict access to certain parts of your website using Nginx’s inbuilt authentication and authorization mechanism based either on your client’s I.P, by prompting for a login prompt or both.
location /private/ {
allow 192.168.1.1/24;
allow 172.16.0.1/16;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny A reverse proxy is a server that sits between internal applications and external clients, forwarding client requests to the appropriate server. While many common applications, such as Node.js, are able to function as servers on their own, NGINX has a number of advanced load balancing, security, and acceleration features that … Read more
This tutorial will show you how to redirect a www URL to non-www, e.g. www.example.com to example.com, with Nginx. We will also show you how to redirect in the other direction, from a non-www URL to www.
In order to set up the desired redirect, www.example.com to … Read more
All login credentials transferred over plain HTTP can easily be sniffed by a MITM attacker, but it is not enough to encrypt the login forms. If you are visiting plain HTTP pages while logged in, your session can be hijacked, and not even two-factor authentication will protect you. To protect … Read more