==================================================================================== mini-dinstall - Apache with basic auth

• Install mini-dinstall

apt-get install mini-dinstall

• Add special user

adduser --quiet --system --group --disabled-password --shell /bin/bash --gecos "APT Repository" apt-repo

• Create directory for the reository

mkdir -p ~apt-repo/public_html/apt/mini-dinstall/incoming

• Set the correct apache Vhost ServerName for the site

• Copy all the files to thier destinations

cp mini-dinstall.conf ~apt-repo/.mini-dinstall.conf
cp htgroup ~apt-repo/.htgroup
cp sign_release.sh ~apt-repo/
cp apt.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/

• Create the password file using htpasswd utility

htpasswd -c ~apt-repo/.htpasswd admin

• Make sure file ownership are correct

chown -R apt-repo:apt-repo ~apt-repo/

• enable the site and restart apache

a2ensite apt.conf
service apache2 restart

• Create a pgp key pair to sign the Release files, or comment out the release_signscript in .mini-dinstall.conf

• Add a line in your sources.list

deb http://user:password@apt.example.com stable/

• add your ssh key to ~apt-repo/.ssh/authorized_keys
• modify and save dput.cf on your local machine as ~/.dput.cf