https://www.companionway.net/tags/nginx/ Recent content in Nginx on Companionway Hugo en-us Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:12:04 -0400 https://www.companionway.net/post/nginx_auth/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:12:04 -0400 https://www.companionway.net/post/nginx_auth/ Gatekeeping the Grid: Building a Secure Nginx Protected Subdirectory with HTTP Basic Auth When hosting a custom dashboard or a set of administrative tools on a private server, you don't always need a massive, database-backed user authentication system just to keep prying eyes out of your data. If your architecture is lean, the absolute most efficient approach is to let the web server itself handle the gatekeeping. Using Nginx’s native basic authentication modules, you can isolate a specific subdirectory under your document root (like /admin or /private) and lock it down for a single user.