how to place basic access authentication on my aws web app?

Question

I have a web app on AWS using CloudFront, an Elastic Load Balancer, and an EC2 host.

I am attempting to place 'Basic Access Authentication' on it to give it simple password protection.

Do any of these AWS services provide this?

I notice that S3 has documentation on requiring the http authentication header, but I don't notice such documentation for the CloudFront, ELB, or EC2 services my app uses.

How can I setup Basic Access Authentication for my app?

Answer 1

It's fairly simple. Just set up HTTP authentication on your webserver level.

You can follow this if You're using Nginx: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-basic-http-authentication-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-14-04

And for Apache: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-apache-on-ubuntu-14-04

Let me know if this helps.