I have previously demonstrated the process of installing and sharing files using HTTP with Lighttpd. To access the complete article, please click here. Recently, I encountered a requirement to share two distinct folders with individual authentication for each folder. In this article, I will describe how to achieve this, because as we will see, it's not that easy.
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root@host:~# apt-get install lighttpd
root@host:~# mkdir /var/www/upload1
root@host:~# mkdir /var/www/upload2
root@host:~# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/upload1
root@host:~# chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/upload2
root@host:~# echo "user1:PASSWORD1" > /etc/lighttpd/upload1-plain.user
root@host:~# echo "user2:PASSWORD2" > /etc/lighttpd/upload2-plain.user
server.modules = (
"mod_indexfile",
"mod_access",
"mod_alias",
"mod_redirect",
"mod_auth",
"mod_authn_file"
)
auth.backend = "plain"
#UPLOAD1 (http://X.X.X.X/)
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/$" {
auth.backend.plain.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/upload1-plain.user"
auth.require = ( "" =>
(
"method" => "basic",
"realm" => "Auth",
"require" => "valid-user"
)
)
}
#UPLOAD2 (http://X.X.X.X/upload2)
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/upload2($|/)" {
auth.backend.plain.userfile = "/etc/lighttpd/upload2-plain.user"
server.dir-listing = "enable"
alias.url = ( "/upload2" => "/var/www/upload2/" )
auth.require = ( "" =>
(
"method" => "basic",
"realm" => "Auth",
"require" => "valid-user"
)
)
}
#UPLOAD1 (DEFAULT)
server.document-root = "/var/www/upload1/"
server.dir-listing = "enable"
dir-listing.encoding = "utf-8"
server.upload-dirs = ( "/var/cache/lighttpd/uploads" )
server.errorlog = "/var/log/lighttpd/error.log"
server.pid-file = "/run/lighttpd.pid"
server.username = "www-data"
server.groupname = "www-data"
server.port = 80
# features
#https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Server_feature-flagsDetails
server.feature-flags += ("server.h2proto" => "enable")
server.feature-flags += ("server.h2c" => "enable")
server.feature-flags += ("server.graceful-shutdown-timeout" => 5)
#server.feature-flags += ("server.graceful-restart-bg" => "enable")
# strict parsing and normalization of URL for consistency and security
# https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Server_http-parseoptsDetails
# (might need to explicitly set "url-path-2f-decode" = "disable"
# if a specific application is encoding URLs inside url-path)
server.http-parseopts = (
"header-strict" => "enable",# default
"host-strict" => "enable",# default
"host-normalize" => "enable",# default
"url-normalize-unreserved"=> "enable",# recommended highly
"url-normalize-required" => "enable",# recommended
"url-ctrls-reject" => "enable",# recommended
"url-path-2f-decode" => "enable",# recommended highly (unless breaks app)
#"url-path-2f-reject" => "enable",
"url-path-dotseg-remove" => "enable",# recommended highly (unless breaks app)
#"url-path-dotseg-reject" => "enable",
#"url-query-20-plus" => "enable",# consistency in query string
)
index-file.names = ( "index.php", "index.html" )
url.access-deny = ( "~", ".inc" )
static-file.exclude-extensions = ( ".php", ".pl", ".fcgi" )
# default listening port for IPv6 falls back to the IPv4 port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/use-ipv6.pl " + server.port
include_shell "/usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.conf.pl"
include "/etc/lighttpd/conf-enabled/*.conf"
#server.compat-module-load = "disable"
server.modules += (
"mod_dirlisting",
"mod_staticfile",
)
root@host:~# systemctl restart lighttpd.service
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