I need to trigger the apache authentications depending only on a URL parameter. For instance, The following URL http://mySillyApplication.com/items/browse?collection=9&sort_field=Title&num_items=10&... I need to trigger the authentication only if collection=9 . I've tried many things but I couldn't find how to do it. I think the key is to find a RewriteRule that could activate the LocationMatch .... just a guess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.*(?:^|&))collection=9((?:&|$).*) [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) - [R=401]
<LocationMatch "....don't know...">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Login Required"
AuthUserFile /var/www/.../.htpwd
Require valid-user
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy any
</LocationMatch>
Thanks.
You could use <If> Directive if Apache is 2.4.26 and later http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#if
So, try the following code :
<If "%{QUERY_STRING} =~ /(collection=9&)/">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Login Required"
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy any
</If>
I'd like to get Basic Authentication for everything except requests from a certain IP Range and URLs that have a URL Path. (In my scenario these always end with .html)
The IP Range works fine, but I can't get requests to go threw that end with .html. For example:
http://subdomain.domain.com/test.html or http://subdomain.domain.com/test/test.html
should be allowed without authentication, while
http://subdomain.domain.com or http://domain.com
should be denied.
This is the Basic Auth block in my .htaccess:
SetEnvIf Request_URI ".html$" auth=1
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
AuthName "Login"
require valid-user
Allow from 123.456.78 env=auth
Satisfy Any
You need 2 different Allow lines:
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\.html$" NO_AUTH
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
AuthName "Login"
require valid-user
Satisfy Any
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 123.456.78
Allow from env=NO_AUTH
I am trying to use the .htaccess to exclude all files except the /index.php file and the url without the index.php file. I am using the following following:
#.htaccess
#Look for php before html
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
<Files *>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Sorry, Restricted Files"
AuthUserFile /home/Documents/SystemFiles/apache/passwords
Require user myuser
</Files>
<Files "index.php">
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from All
Satisfy any
</Files>
Right now everything is password protected except /index.php. However, what I would like to do is have it so that both www.site.com/ and www.site.com/index.php are not password protected. As it stands now www.site.com/ is password protected while www.site.com/index.php is not.
Thanks
UPDATED!!!!
I found this that solved my problem:
getting "authentication required" when requesting / instead of /index.php
I have a Basic Authentication setup on a development server. It is setup inside my httpd.conf file for the VirtualHost of the website. I've had to set up it to exclude certain directories, which has caused no problems and all works fine.
The issue has been with excluding a URL that has been through my mod_rewrite rules in the .htaccess file. My set up is that I have all URLs going through my index.php file and from there the relevant code is found and ran. I tried adding the URL that I wanted to exclude (/businesses/upload_logo) like I did the others but it still requires authentication. This is what I currently have:
...
<Location />
SetEnvIf Request_URI "/businesses/upload_logo" noauth=1
SetEnvIf Request_URI "/api/.*" noauth=1
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Private"
AuthUserFile ****
Require valid-user
Order deny,allow
Satisfy any
Deny from all
Allow from env=noauth
</Location>
....
I have found questions that are similar to mine here & here but the answers only give me what I'm already trying.
I have thought of possible other solutions as well, but these will be last resort things. I want to see if it's possible the way I'm currently doing it:
Set up the basic auth inside my php code instead
Too much hassle at the moment
Put the authentication in my .htaccess file instead
Didn't want to do this just yet as I only want the authentication to happen on one of 3 servers. I'm aware that I could use some more SetEnvIf HOST ... but I'm looking to see if it can be fixed this way or not first.
The mod_rewrite rule:
...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) index.php [L,QSA]
Try adding
Allow from env=REDIRECT_noauth
For me something like this works like a charm:
<location />
SetEnvIf Request_URI "/businesses/upload_logo" REDIRECT_noauth=1
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Files"
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwords/passwords
Order Deny,Allow
Satisfy any
Deny from all
Allow from env=REDIRECT_noauth
Require user yournickname
</location>
based on what you have given it should work, unless there is a conflicting directive somewhere else in your configuration.
i have made a similar working setup , just i have used filesystem path instead of URI
i am adding it here, hoping you may find it useful
<VirtualHost *:8989 >
<IfModule mod_auth_basic.c>
<Directory /var/www/html/vella-8989>
# the auth block
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Please login."
AuthUserFile /var/www/html/vella-8989/.htpasswd
require valid-user
Order Deny,Allow
Satisfy any
Deny from all
Require valid-user
Allow from env=noauth
</Directory>
</IfModule>
# set an environtment variable "noauth" if the request has "/callbacks/"
SetEnvIf Request_URI "/callbacks/" noauth=1
ServerName vella.com
ServerSignature off
</VirtualHost>
I need to exclude one Url (or even better one prefix) from normal htaccess Basic Auth protection. Something like /callbacks/myBank or /callbacks/.*
Do you have any hints how to do it?
What I'm not looking for is how to exclude a file.
This has to be url (as this is solution based on PHP framework, and all urls are redirected with mod_rewrite to index.php). So there is no file under this URL. Nothing.
Some of those urls are just callbacks from other services (No IP is not known so I cannot exclude based on IP) and they cannot prompt for User / Password.
Current definition is as simple as:
AuthName "Please login."
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /xxx/.htpasswd
require valid-user
Using SetEnvIf, you can create a variable when the request starts with some path, then use the Satisfy Any directive to avoid having to login.
# set an environtment variable "noauth" if the request starts with "/callbacks/"
SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/callbacks/ noauth=1
# the auth block
AuthName "Please login."
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /xxx/.htpasswd
# Here is where we allow/deny
Order Deny,Allow
Satisfy any
Deny from all
Require valid-user
Allow from env=noauth
The allow/deny chunk of directives says that deny access for EVERYONE, except when there is a valid-user (successful BASIC auth login) or if the noauth variable is set.
If you are using Apache 2.4, SetEnvIf and mod_rewrite workarounds are no longer necessary since the Require directive is able to interpret expressions directly:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Please login."
AuthUserFile "/xxx/.htpasswd"
Require expr %{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#^/callbacks/.*#
Require valid-user
Apache 2.4 treats Require directives that are not grouped by <RequireAll> as if they were in a <RequireAny>, which behaves as an "or" statement. Here's a more complicated example that demonstrates matching both the request URI and the query string together, and falling back on requiring a valid user:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Please login."
AuthUserFile "/xxx/.htpasswd"
<RequireAny>
<RequireAll>
# I'm using the alternate matching form here so I don't have
# to escape the /'s in the URL.
Require expr %{REQUEST_URI} =~ m#^/callbacks/.*#
# You can also match on the query string, which is more
# convenient than SetEnvIf.
#Require expr %{QUERY_STRING} = 'secret_var=42'
</RequireAll>
Require valid-user
</RequireAny>
This example would allow access to /callbacks/foo?secret_var=42 but require a username and password for /callbacks/foo.
Remember that unless you use <RequireAll>, Apache will attempt to match each Require in order so think about which conditions you want to allow first.
The reference for the Require directive is here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_authz_core.html#require
And the expression reference is here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/expr.html
This solution works pretty well, you just need to define whitelist you want to pass through.
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI "^/status\.php" noauth
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Identify yourself"
AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from env=noauth
Satisfy any
I tried the other solutions but this is what worked for me. Hopefully it will be of help to others.
# Auth stuff
AuthName "Authorized personnel only."
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /path/to/your/htpasswd/file
SetEnvIf Request_URI "^/index.php/api/*" allow
Order allow,deny
Require valid-user
Allow from env=allow
Deny from env=!allow
Satisfy any
This will allow the api url and any url string after /index.php/api/ to open without having to login and anything else will be prompted to login.
Example:
mywebsite.com/index.php/api will open without being prompted to login
mywebsite.com/index.php/api/soap/?wsdl=1 will open without being prompted to login
mywebsite.com will be prompted to login first
<location />
SetEnvIf Request_URI "/callback/.*" REDIRECT_noauth=1
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Files"
AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/passwords/passwords
Order Deny,Allow
Satisfy any
Deny from all
Allow from env=REDIRECT_noauth
Require user yournickname
</location>
why don't you just use basic auth the way it was intended?
user:password#domain.com/callbacks/etc
Another approach works like this, if the area you are protecting has a monolithic PHP script controlling everything, like Wordpress. Set up Authentication with in a different directory. Put an index.php there that sets a cookie on path '/'. Then in Wordpress (for example), check the cookie, but bypass the check if $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is the excluded URL.
On my shared hosting platform, RewriteRule could not set an environment variable that worked with "Satisfy any".
With any approach, watch out that the page you are protecting does not include images, stylesheets, etc., that trigger an authentication request when the page itself does not.
Add below code to your root htaccess file and don't forget to change your admin url, .htpasswd file page.
<Files "admin.php">
AuthName "Cron auth"
AuthUserFile E:\wamp\www\mg\.htpasswd
AuthType basic
Require valid-user
</Files>
Create .htpasswd file in your root folder and add below username and password (set default username:admin and password: admin123)
admin:$apr1$8.nTvE4f$UirPOK.PQqqfghwANLY47.
Please let me know if you still facing any issue.
None of this worked for me with Apache 2.4, because my PHP/Laravel htaccess did a rewrite and changed Request_URI to be always /index.php.
I used Require expr %{THE_REQUEST} to get the first line of the HTTP request (THE_REQUEST) which remains unchanged.
e.g., "GET /callbacks HTTP/1.1"
This worked for me:
<Location />
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Content"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
Require expr %{THE_REQUEST} =~ m#^GET /callbacks#
Require valid-user
</Location>
Note you need to change GET to POST if you need to or allow both:
Require expr %{THE_REQUEST} =~ m#^GET /callbacks#
Require expr %{THE_REQUEST} =~ m#^POST /callbacks#
Require valid-user
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