Problem with auth_basic and auth_basic_user_file

Server NGINX
1

Hallo,

I want a login for this location.

location /TEST/ {
   alias /www/c2c/;
   }

With

location /TEST/ {
alias /www/c2c/;
auth_basic “Test Auth”;
}

no username/password box in the browser. I see the index.html site from
the
c2c folder

With

location /TEST/ {
   alias /www/c2c/;
   auth_basic "Test Auth";
   auth_basic_user_file /nginx/conf/htpasswd;
   }

and an “404 Not Found” error shows the browser.

I use nginx 1.7.2

Where is the problem?

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2

Hello!

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 03:26:14PM -0400, Varix wrote:

location /TEST/ {
alias /www/c2c/;
auth_basic “Test Auth”;
}

no username/password box in the browser. I see the index.html site from the
c2c folder

This is expected. Both auth_basic and auth_basic_user_file must
be set for auth_basic to work.

With

location /TEST/ {
   alias /www/c2c/;
   auth_basic "Test Auth";
   auth_basic_user_file /nginx/conf/htpasswd;
   }

and an “404 Not Found” error shows the browser.

This likely indicate you have some error_page’s configured, and
they intercept “401 Unauthorized” returned. Try looking into your
configs and into error log.

–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/

3

Hallo Maxim,

thanks. I copy some errorpages in the custom errorpage folder and all is
OK.

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