How to do HTTP Basic Authorization in Yii2 application without DB?

Question

PHP

Good afternoon!
I need to do basic authorization in yii2 for a separate /api folder, without using a model (db), i.e. just enter the username and password in the code.
Tried via htaccess but no response when adding .htaccess to /api/web. As if the project does not see it.

I tried to do this, but it is through the database:

public function behaviors()
    {
        return [
            'basicAuth' => [
                'class' => \yii\filters\auth\HttpBasicAuth::className(),
                'auth' => function ($username, $password) {
                    if ($username == 'admin' && $password == 'admin') {
                        return true;
                    } else {
                        return null;
                    }
                },
            ],
        ];
    }

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I will assume that the server does not run on Apache, but on nginx. In this case, you need to register in its config.