Web server security with htpasswd

After the server has been configured and services have been started, the next step is to implement security for the server to perform access control. In this recipe, we will learn how to configure security for the Apache web server using Salt.

How to do it...

We will use the same minion as in the previous recipe.

  1. Edit /opt/salt-cookbook/development/apache/init.sls to have the following entries:
    apache_packages: pkg.installed: - pkgs: - apache2 - apache2-utils enable_rewrite_module: apache_module.enable: - name: rewrite - require: - pkg: apache_packages /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/salt-cookbook.conf: apache.configfile: - config: - VirtualHost: this: '*:80' ServerName: - salt-cookbook.com ServerAlias: - www.salt-cookbook.com ...

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