if you don't already have htpasswd installed on your box do a apt-get
* apt-get install apache2-utils
Create password file
* htpasswd -c -m /etc/lighttpd/htpasswd
(Default encryption scheme is MD5)
Modify Lighttpd Config file
* vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
Add mod_auth on server.modules
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_alias",
"mod_accesslog",
"mod_compress",
"mod_auth"
}
Add following authorization module configurations
auth.backend = "htpasswd"
auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/htpasswd"
auth.require = ( "/directory-to-be-protected/" => (
"method" => "basic",
"realm" => "Access restricted to authorized users only",
"require" => "valid-user"
)
)
Reload lighttpd configuration
/etc/init.d/lighttpd reload
