Auth_basic from if condition?

Server NGINX
1

I seem to have discovered that something that I thought was possible
might
actually not be so.

I have a scenario where I would like users from specific IP ranges to
have to go
through the authentication procedure and others not to.

I thought for sure this would work:
if ( $remote_addr != range ) {
auth_basic “bla”;
auth_basic_user_file users.conf;
}

However, I’m discovering that if you do a test of this config that nginx
does
not like the auth_basic directive in the if condition. Is this the
correct
behaviour? Is there a way around it? Is there some way to emulate what I
want?

2

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 06:23:40PM +0000, Sergey wrote:

}

However, I’m discovering that if you do a test of this config that nginx does
not like the auth_basic directive in the if condition. Is this the correct
behaviour?

Yes.

Is there a way around it? Is there some way to emulate what I want?

location / {
satisfy_any on;

allow  192.168.1.0/32;
deny   all;

auth_basic            "bla";
auth_basic_user_file  users.conf;

}