Manual certonly with apache2 Auth Basic enabled: How to send creds?

Hello.

I am running certbot-auto on a utility server and am generating all certs using --manual.
For most web servers, this works fine by placing the file in .well-known/acme-challenge.
However several of my web servers utiliize basic auth from .htpasswd.
I can’t disable this, and really can’t stop the web server. I also don’t want to install certbot locally as Debian installs a ton of cruft that I don’t want on the web servers.

How can I send basic auth credentials, or how can I create the certificate otherwise?

Thanks.

I found the solution:

I added a .htaccess files to the .well-known/acme-challenge directory with the contents:

Satisfy any

This allowed LE to connect without authenticating and complete the transaction.

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