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Magento 2 – AWS Lightsail – Bitnami – Password protect development site

I have followed the below link and added authentication for Bitnami Magento 2.3.2 development site which is in AWS Lightsail.

https://docs.bitnami.com/bch/apps/magento/administration/use-htpasswd/

I have created htpasswd and magento_users using,

cd /opt/bitnami
apache2/bin/htpasswd -cb apache2/magento_users USERNAME PASSWORD```

Also I have added the below code in /opt/bitnami/apps/magento/conf/httpd-app.conf


...
AuthType Basic
AuthName MyAuthName
AuthUserFile "/opt/bitnami/apache2/magento_users"
Require valid-user
...
= 2.3>
# Require all granted

...

After I have restarted the apache and flushed the cache, It asked for username and password when loading dev frontend. When I provide credentials, it end up getting error as,

Error 503 Backend fetch failed
Backend fetch failed

Guru Meditation:
XID: 393256

Varnish cache server

I can’t see anything related to this in Apache error_log.

Can anyone please help me out to fix this issue.