password protect a node.js website

[TINO THOMAS]

Hello,

I would like to password protect a node.js website running on port 8000. I am not sure what method to follow for this.
Will installing htpasswd (https://github.com/gevorg/htpasswd#readme) will help to achieve this?.
I installed htpasswd and created a password file using htpasswd -c command. But I am not sure how to proceed after this.
Can anyone please help me to complete this task.

[Tim Caswell]

There is nothing built-in to node to auto-read htpassword files.  You'll need a library that implements the authentication. The easiest is to implement http basic auth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication> (the one where your browser shows an ugly blocking popup asking for username and password)

Most http frameworks have a library for this built-in.  I would look up the docs for Express or something if you're not comfortable implementing the spec yourself (not that it's hard, I don't want to scare you away)

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[Jonathan Irving]

I found this very convenient for use with Express:

https://github.com/gevorg/http-auth/

cheers, J