Web app to serve static content but inject auth based on route?

[J. Lewis Muir]

Hello!

Is there a good reusable Roda-based web app that serves static content
but injects a required authentication page based on the route? I
envision it reading the authentication rules from a configuration file.

If no such web app exists, am I right in thinking that it wouldn't be
too hard to write such an app using Roda and Rodauth?

My use case is that I'd like to use Jekyll to generate a static site,
but I want some parts of the site to require authentication to access.
I don't want to use HTTP Basic Auth, which I could configure in a web
server based on the URL path, because password managers don't support
that. So, I wish for an app that simply serves static content, but
injects an authentication page when authentication is required based
on the URL path. The user could authenticate using a password manager
because password managers *do* support web pages.

Thanks!

Lewis

[Jeremy Evans]

I'm not aware of an existing app that does that, but you are correct that it shouldn't be too difficult.  You'd probably want to use the multi_public plugin, with something like:

route do |r|

  r.public(:no_auth)

  r.rodauth

  rodauth.require_authentication

  r.public(:need_auth)

end 

Thanks,

Jeremy

[Hartmut Bischoff]

Why do you realize your project with roda/jekyll when we got Bridgetown?  

[J. Lewis Muir]

On 07/25, Hartmut Bischoff wrote:
> Why do you realize your project with roda/jekyll when we got Bridgetown?

Because I didn't know about Bridgetown? :-) Thanks for mentioning it;
I'll check it out. And if you feel like sharing anything that you like
about it, I'd be interested to hear. If I were to use it instead of
Jekyll, the first question that comes to mind is, does it support Jekyll
themes? I was thinking of using the "Just the Docs" Jekyll theme.

Lewis

[Hartmut Bischoff]

Personally, I am fan of Bridgetown.  Jekyll-Themes have to be adapted. Perhaps you ask the community if someone has done the job. Otherwise feel free to contact me, it should not be too hard, to manage the adaption of the theme.