Nginx Basic Authentication on OpenWrt

nginx-basic-authentication.md

Install Nginx and password generator

opkg update
opkg install nginx openssl-util

Create a file to store password

touch /etc/nginx/.htpasswd

Generate password for user

echo -n 'USERNAME:' >> /etc/nginx/.htpasswd
openssl passwd -apr1 >> /etc/nginx/.htpasswd

cat /etc/nginx/.htpasswd

Edit server configuration

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html index.htm;

    server_name localhost;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        auth_basic "Restricted Content";
        auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
    }
}

Make it effective

service nginx restart