Basic Auth not requested when rewrite rule exists

Server NGINX
1

Part of my Server config looks like this:
location /admin/ {
auth_basic “Restricted”;
auth_basic_user_file /path/to/.htpasswd;

     #rewrite any .xhtml page to page.php
     rewrite ^/(.+)\.xhtml$ /$1.php last;
 }

But when I go to mysite.com/admin/somefile.xhtml I don’t get asked for
Authentification and the page will display.

If I comment out the rewrite rule then I do get asked for
authentification.

Can anyone advise me on how to get authentification and the rewrite rule
working together?

Thanks

Dave

2

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Dave Kennard
[email protected] wrote:

Authentification and the page will display.

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Hello,

You rewrite the request to something.php which is likely handled by a
separate location that captures all PHP. You should make a PHP
location internal to the location in question. In one of two ways…

Outside of admin like so:
location /admin {
auth_basic …;
…
}
location ~ ^/admin/.*.php {
auth_basic …;
…
}

Inside admin like so:
location /admin {
auth_basic …;
location ~ .php$ { … }
}

Thanks,
Merlin

3

Thanks Merlin, that works great!

Cheers

Dave