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Basic-Auth

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

Using NGINX basic auth as a lightweight alternative to building authentication for my side projects. For a standard NGINX setup, the authenticated username is passed to a Node app in an X-Username header and checked against a user list for access rights. I then cover replicating this in NGINX Proxy Manager, using access lists and the locations tab to set the header...