I am trying to set up HTTP Basic Authentication for nginx on my NSLU2 running Unslung 6.8.

To test I have added the auth-basic lines to the nginx.conf file to control access to php files as follows:

#proxy php-fcgi location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9009; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
/opt/share/www/php/$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string; fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method; fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type; fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length; auth_basic "Restricted"; auth_basic_user_file conf/htpasswd;

With the auth-basic lines commented out, I can access the php pages OK. With the lines in place, I get the login dialog box as expected, but when I login, all that happens is that the login box is refreshed.

Two entries are created in the host.access.log showing the attempted access. There is no entry in the error.log

I think I am just missing some basic step in setting this up.

Is the htpassword file correct? Is the encryption of the password correct?

Any suggestions / help appreciated

thanks Terry

************************************************ The htpassword file for the user account “test” is as follows: test:cgsk91HyOZHGE (the password is “test”)

The entries in the host.access.log is as follows:

192.168.1.25 - - [06/Dec/2006:20:27:32 +1000] GET /hello.php HTTP/1.1 Status"401" Bytes195 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8" "-"

192.168.1.25 - test [06/Dec/2006:20:27:40 +1000] GET /hello.php HTTP/1.1 Status"401" Bytes195 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/1.5.0.8" "-"