Stop calling HTTP basic auth apache authentication

Created on 12 January 2017, over 8 years ago
Updated 28 May 2025, 15 days ago

This is, admittedly, a little nitpick but the module description says:

PHP Authentication shield. It creates a simple shield for the site with Apache authentication.

It's actually HTTP Basic Access Authentication and has nothing to do with Apache (it actually has explicit handling for cgi and fpm). This line is factually inaccurate and also a little misleading as I've seen people say they couldn't use the module because they were using nginx/fpm rather than apache when I linked them to the module.

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1.0

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  • Needs backport to D7

    After being applied to the 8.x branch, it should be considered for backport to the 7.x branch. Note: This tag should generally remain even after the backport has been written, approved, and committed.

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