arunjayakumar01/htpasswd in Nginx.md

## htpasswd in Nginx.md

      
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    htpasswd setup

sudo apt install apache2-utils
sudo touch /etc/nginx/htpasswd
sudo htpasswd /etc/nginx/htpasswd username
Enter password
to delete a user from the htpasswd file
sudo htpasswd -D /etc/nginx/htpasswd username
In nginx Vhost , inside the server block add the contents
location / {
        auth_basic "Restricted";
        auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd;
    }

sudo nginx -t
sudo service nginx restart