How to configure basic auth with Traefik in HCS

Basic Auth

A guide to configure basic auth with Traefik in HCS.

The configuration is slightly different for Standard Applications and Docker Compose based applications/one-click services.

All you need to do is to set custom labels on your application.

Standard Applications

traefik.http.middlewares.<random_unique_name>.basicauth.users=test:$2y$12$ci.4U63YX83CwkyUrjqxAucnmi2xXOIlEF6T/KdP9824f1Rf1iyNG
traefik.http.routers.<unique_router_name>.middlewares=<random_unique_name>

In the example above, we are using test as username and test as password.

Docker Compose based Applications & one-click Services

You only need to add the basicauth middleware.

services:
  changedetection:
    labels:
      - 'traefik.http.middlewares.<random_unique_name>.basicauth.users=test:$2y$12$ci.4U63YX83CwkyUrjqxAucnmi2xXOIlEF6T/KdP9824f1Rf1iyNG'

In the example above, we are using test as username and test as password.

Enable Escape special characters in labels? when applying basic auth labels.

How to generate user/password?

You need to set your username and password in the basicauth.users label.

You can generate one with the htpasswd command:

htpasswd -nbB test test