Unable to use HTTP Basic Authentication with nginx

[bmp]

Describe the bug

A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

Context

• Hardware: Raspberry Pi at home
• YunoHost version: 11.2.14 (testing).
• I have access to my server: Through SSH & through the webadmin
• Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance?: no
  • If yes, please explain:
• Using, or trying to install package version/branch:
• If upgrading, current package version: can be found in the admin, or with yunohost app info $app_id

Steps to reproduce

• Installed the application and am able to get the index page with the cat animation.
• Followed the steps in the Admin doc to add basic HTTP authentication, i.e, modified /etc/nginx/conf.d/[redacted].com.d/my_webapp.d/my_webapp.conf with

  location /notes {
    auth_basic           "Administrator’s Area";
    auth_basic_user_file /etc/apache2/.htpasswd;
  } 
  

  I have also followed the guide , to create a password in the location visible above. I then reloaded nginx using nginx -t.
• Go to [redacted.com]/notes, and there is a prompt for user name and password
• I am unable to login with the password I had used for used in the htpasswd command to store the password in /etc/apache2/.htpasswd

Expected behavior

The index page should be shown after the correct password has been entered.

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[bmp]

Sorry, is there any other place I can reach out or read any documents to check if i am doing something wrong?

[Caliandroid]

Hi,
the best place would be the yunohost forum.

I can deliver a temporary solution.
Your http basic auth seems ok.

What you need to do (and re-do after every yunohost update and every time, yunohost app ssowatconf has been executed <= this happens frequently):

1. Open /etc/ssowat/conf.json
2. Search for your my_webapp.mai block
3. set auth_header und use_remote_user_var_in_nginx_conf to false

"my_webapp.main": {
            "auth_header": false,
            "label": "Demo Site",
...
...
  "use_remote_user_var_in_nginx_conf": false,

4. sudo systemctl restart nginx

By the way:
I'm currently searching for a permanent way to limit the access to a certain subfolder of a my_webapp site via SSOWAT yunohost permissions (visit the forum :) ).