Php auth & fast_cgi

Server NGINX
#1

A colleague of mine told me that these two lines in php doesn’t seem to
work on an nginx + fastcgi installation. Any thoughts?

header(‘WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=“SocialWhale Controller”’);

$_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_USER’]
$_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_PW’];

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Alex

#2

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:58:35PM +0200, Alexander Economou wrote:

Hi there,

A colleague of mine told me that these two lines in php doesn’t seem to
work on an nginx + fastcgi installation. Any thoughts?

They seem to work fine for me. Any expansion?

What does your colleague do, what does your colleague see, and what
does your colleague expect to see? And, if it’s not obvious, what’s the
difference between the last two?

header(‘WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm=“SocialWhale Controller”’);

$_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_USER’]
$_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_PW’];

authcheck:

<?php if ($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] == "x" && $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] == "x") { echo "Well done, right credentials\n"; } else { header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="SocialWhale Controller"'); } ?>

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I expect “curl -i http://localhost/authcheck” to show me a HTTP 401,
and “curl -i -u x:a http://localhost/authcheck” to show me a HTTP 401,
and “curl -i -u x:x http://localhost/authcheck” to show me a HTTP 200.

And that’s what I see.

nginx.conf ensures that the php fastcgi server processes the request,
of course.

All the best,

f

Francis D. [email protected]

#3

The problem seemed to be that after the initial auth , the credentials
could not change (diff user/pass).

Thanx alot Francis for the fast reply and sorry for the crappy problem
description but that was the only input i had. My colleague (the web
dev) , seems to have found a solution to his problem.

Cheers

Alex

On 03/14/2011 01:39 PM, Francis D. wrote:

does your colleague expect to see? And, if it’s not obvious, what’s the

and “curl -i -u x:a http://localhost/authcheck” to show me a HTTP 401,
and “curl -i -u x:x http://localhost/authcheck” to show me a HTTP 200.

And that’s what I see.

nginx.conf ensures that the php fastcgi server processes the request,
of course.

All the best,

f

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