<h3 id="heading-prerequisites">Prerequisites</h3>
I followed this <a target="_blank" href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-apache-on-ubuntu-16-04">guide</a> for my Ubuntu 18.04 server and opted the virtual host method (there are two methods to setup Apache auth, one is Virtual Host Definition and other one requires <code>.htaccess</code> file), I opted the first one namely the Virtual Host Definition. I followed the guide but config file in the guide didn’t worked for me so I had to improvise :). This is my config file that worked for me.
 ServerAdmin DocumentRoot ServerName 

 Options +FollowSymlinks AllowOverride All Require all granted 

 AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Content" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd Require valid-user 



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### Prerequisites

I followed this [guide](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-apache-on-ubuntu-16-04) for my Ubuntu 18.04 server and opted the virtual host method (there are two methods to setup Apache auth, one is Virtual Host Definition and other one requires `.htaccess` file), I opted the first one namely the **Virtual Host Definition.** I followed the guide but config file in the guide didn’t worked for me so I had to improvise :). This is my config file that worked for me.

<VirtualHost \*:80> 
 ServerAdmin <your-admin> 
 DocumentRoot <your-root> 
 ServerName <your-server-name>

<Directory project-root-directory-path/> 
 Options +FollowSymlinks 
 AllowOverride All 
 Require all granted 
 </Directory>

<Directory "project-root-directory-path"> 
 AuthType Basic 
 AuthName "Restricted Content" 
 AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd 
 Require valid-user 
 </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Checkout this [link](https://websiteforstudents.com/protect-directories-with-apache2-http-basic-authentication-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts/) for more.

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How To Set Up Password Authentication with Apache on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 & 18.04

Prerequisites