NGINX proxy manager - setting headers to use basic auth in your apps

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

When I’m spinning up side projects, I frequently ignore auth, and just rely on NGINX basic auth - one of the side benefits of reverse-proxying everything.

Regular NGINX

This article in the docs explains how to set up basic auth to protect different paths. To make it work in my node apps, I need the successful user name passed in so I check it against the user table to work out access rights etc.

Basic-Auth on dev.endevour

NGINX proxy manager - setting headers to use basic auth in your apps

Regular NGINX