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  1. Configure a proxy
  2. Add authentication to proxied website

Configure a proxy

Enable the http_proxy module

sudo a2enmod proxy_http

Create a VirtualHost, that looks somewhat like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin admin@gilgalab.com
    ServerName subdomain.domain.com.br
    ServerAlias subdomain.domain.com

    ProxyPass "/" "http://localhost/"
    ProxyPassReverse "/" "http://localhost/"

    <Proxy *>
        Authtype Basic
        Authname "Authentication? What's that?"
        AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
        Require valid-user
    </Proxy>

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel debug

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error_somedomain.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access_somedomain.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Add authentication to proxied website

Edit the website VirtualHost and add this:

<Proxy *>
		Authtype Basic
		Authname "Some message here"
		AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
		Require valid-user
</Proxy>

Then create the .htpasswd file

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/apache2/.htpasswd username

Restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart

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