Simple basicauth setup isn't working (no proxies involved!)

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I’m trying to simply protect a folder on my server with basic auth. E.g. I want everything inside https://myserver.com/dc to require a basic auth login. This is (most of) my Caddyfile:

myserver.com {
	root /var/www/blog/public
	tls ...
	gzip

	basicauth /dc test test

	git {
		repo etc etc
	}
}

However, I’ve gone in and created a file /var/www/blog/public/dc/index.html (which just contains hi), and when I visit myserver.com/dc, I can see hi - no prompt for auth or anything.

What am I getting wrong here? I’ve tried manually rebooting Caddy between changes (usually I let the github hook reload the changes). I’ve tried various ways of writing the path (e.g. basicauth test test { /dc/* }).

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The correct syntax is indeed basicauth /dc test test, as per your Caddyfile.

Does it still let you though if you access your site via incognito/private session?

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It does.

…but I just rebooted Caddy again manually, and now it’s prompting me for auth. So, that’s a success, but I have no idea how!

I thought that maybe the browser could have been caching a valid response, so refreshing the page didn’t ask for auth. But the first time I visited that URL, auth should have been already enabled. Hmm.

4

I didn’t think that the git webhook actually reloaded Caddy config? Even so, you did mention that you’ve tried manually rebooting Caddy already and previous attempts didn’t seem to take.

5

Ah right, in retrospect of course the webhook wouoldn’t reload the config. Silly of me! So maybe I just rebooted the server while I had a wrong path configuration. Thanks for your patience :slight_smile:

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No worries, glad everything’s working out. :smiley:

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