My workplace has a commercial shiny server. While the shinyapps deploy fine, I have attempted to inject .htaccess|.htpasswd without success. For example, I have created the necessary files and placed them in the directories:
Directory where shinyapps are hosted /home/usrs/user1/shinyapps/myshinyapp1/myshinyapp1.R
Where I have placed the .htpasswd file
/home/usrs/user1/shinyapps/secretfiles/.htpasswd
Where I have placed the .htaccess file
/home/usrs/user1/shinyapps/myshinyapp1/.htaccess
Contents of .htaccess file
AuthName "This My Awesome Drupal Site Area!!.. Identify Yourself First."
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /home/usrs/user1/shinyapps/secretfiles/.htpasswd
require valid-user
This works when testing at home, using XAMPP but when attempting to replicate at my worksite, it fails [nothing loads until I remove the .htaccess file].
Is it not possible to use this type of authentication for ShinyApps?
