On Mar 02, 2007, at 14:14 , Wayne E. Seguin wrote:

I figured out how to get it working, it still doesn't make sense to me though.

What I did to get it working was move the auth lines into the server/ section from the location/ section contained within.

Even though the documentation http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpAuthBasicModule#auth_basic specifically states that context may be "context: http, server, location, limit_except".

My best guess as to why this move worked is something to the tune of: The auth was literally ONLY applying to / and once the location went away from / it no longer worked... but that's only a half-baked idea.

Thanks! ~Wayne

For your reference, the working sections are below:

http { ... server { # port to listen on. Can also be set to an IP:PORT listen 443;

ssl on; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/blog.jentryx.com.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/blog.jentryx.com.key; #keepalive_timeout 70;

# Set the max size for file uploads to 50Mb client_max_body_size 50M;

# sets the domain[s] that this vhost server requests for server_name blog.jentryx.com;

auth_basic "Restricted"; auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/users;

# doc root root /home/jentryx_blog/current/public;

# vhost specific access log access_log /var/log/nginx.vhost.access.log main;

# this rewrites all the requests to the maintenance.html # page if it exists in the doc root. This is for capistrano's # disable web task if (-f $document_root/system/maintenance.html) { rewrite ^(.*)$ /system/maintenance.html last; break; }

location / {

# needed to forward user's IP address to rails proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

# needed for HTTPS proxy_set_header X_FORWARDED_PROTO https;

# needed for HTTPS proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect false; proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;