Password protecting url / folder with Jetty

Question

I'd like to password protect a limited portion of a JSP based website running on Jetty 8.1.

So for the url www.mywebsite.com/protected I want the browser to pop up a user/password entry window, whereas www.mywebsite.com is accessible to everyone.

I know that with Apache this is done with the .htaccess file. Since Jetty runs without Apache I'd like to know what's the best way to implement this?

Answer 1

The jsp is just a servlet so you want to configure a security realm protecting that url space in your web.xml file.

Jetty 7, 8

• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Tutorial/Realms

Jetty 9

• http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/configuring-security.html#configuring-security-authentication