# Basic http authentication granularity

**Project:** General | **Board:** Closed | **Votes:** 1
**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.cloud/projects/1-general/items/139-basic-http-authentication-granularity

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Currently the basic authentication option applies to all app URLs, domains etc..

This makes it unfortunately practically unusable for my cases, as I will always need api access to my staged apps. Note that it depends on the app where the api lives. I.e.:

- api.domain.com
- domain.com/api

It would be very helpful if I could either apply the authentication more granularly or provide exclusion paths, whichever is best for UX.

Context: I rely on basic auth to protect against getting indexed/scraped.

![](http://roadmap.ploi.cloud/storage/JxVxjdDsYd8TTn8dMwdlcuMsd8j2JmYXaRCaf2hw.png)

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## Comments

**Zander van der Meer** (2026-05-22T08:05:15+00:00):
We decided against supporting this for now because of complexity it would add for a basic auth which is supposed to be simple and straight to the point. In this case we would recommend to either use 2 apps or move the authentication into the application itself.