How to login to HTTP stream?

[Elliott Balsley]

I have set streaming authentication mode to Basic, but I can't login.  I see this in the log file.  I've tried both user accounts admin and user, which work in the web UI.  Is there another place I have to define the stream password?

handle_basic_auth: motion-stream - failed auth attempt from 192.168.3.101

[Kevin Lever]

Something like this?  Or did you have something else in mind?

http://192.168.1.43:8081

[Elliott Balsley]

Yes, I want to use that kind of URL with Digest or Basic authentication, but I don't know how to make either work.

[Kevin Lever]

You need an ".htaccess" file in your web server's virtual root directory.  I believe there needs to be a groups file and a user/password file. I haven't done it in a very long time, sorry.  Google ".htaccess"  and see if you can figure it out.

[Elliott Balsley]

Are you sure that will work with MotionEyeOS?  We are not using apache.  In fact, I can't figure out what web server it's using, it seems to be homemade.  By inspecting the webpage, I found that the web root is /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/motioneye.  But if I place a test.html file in there, it cannot load in a browser, I get 

{"error": "not found"}

So that makes me think .htaccess would not work either.

There is already an option in the MotionEye GUI for Digest or Basic authentication, but it's not documented.