How to Password-Protect Directories with mod_authn_dbd and MySQL on Apache (Debian 8) | Linux Today

How to Password-Protect Directories with mod_authn_dbd and MySQL on Apache (Debian 8)

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Till Brehm
Aug 22, 2016

This guide explains how to password-protect web directories (with users from a MySQL database) with mod_authn_dbd on Apache2 on a Debian 8 (Jessie) server. It is an alternative to the plain-text password files provided by mod_auth and allows you to use normal SQL syntax to create/modify delete users.

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Till Brehm

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