Nginx basic auth with server instead of htpasswd

Asked Mar 15 '19 at 16:40

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In nginx, you can do basic auth by using directive auth_basic like

auth_basic "Git Login";
auth_basic_user_file "/var/www/html/git/htpasswd";

Is there a way to authenticate with an API server instead of against htpasswd file? I am building an application similar to heroku where users sign up and I generate an API key for them. They will use command line to login. With the htpasswd setup, it is correctly authenticating with username and password but I want a way to authenticate against my API server instead of htpasswd. How do I go about doing this?

asked Mar 15 '19 at 16:40

maheshmurthy

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http://Nginx.org/r/auth_request – Alexey Ten Mar 15 '19 at 17:58
Thanks. Is it possible to have interactive login using auth_request? Right now, when I do git push, I get a prompt for username and then password. Something similar? – maheshmurthy Mar 15 '19 at 18:14

Nginx basic auth with server instead of htpasswd

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