Question

Basic Auth and other Headers on Static Site component

Posted on March 8, 2023
Engineering
Asked by Kevin Chavez

I’ve used Netlify before an a feature that is always very useful is the ability to set up HTTP Headers on a per-route basis with a simple configuration file.

https://docs.netlify.com/routing/headers/

This is crucial for all sorts of configs, and very helpful for the use-case I’ve been chasing all of today to no avail: Basic Authentication

https://docs.netlify.com/visitor-access/basic-authentication-with-custom-http-headers/

DigitalOcean’s Static Site components don’t seem to offer the capability of doing this. Do they, and have I just not found it? Is my only alternative to use a Web Service resource instead of a Static Site resource, and implement/mantain a server, just to inject headers and use Basic Auth?

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Bobby Iliev

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• March 8, 2023

Accepted Answer

Hey @kevinchavez,

Indeed this is not available out of the box with the App Platform, what you could do instead is to use a Droplet with Apache and implement the basic auth there:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-password-authentication-with-apache-on-ubuntu-20-04

The best thing to do to get your voice heard regarding this would be to head over to our Product Ideas board and post a new idea, including as much information as possible for what you’d like to see implemented.