Password protect a folder in nginx
Posted on October 29, 2007 at 06:01 PM
What you would normally do in apache with an .htaccess file, nginx requires a different approach.
In sites-enabled, edit your site’s config file by adding the following inside the server block
location = /secret-folder {
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file /usr/nginx/htpasswd;
}
Make sure you create a htpasswd file in the correct location.
htpasswd -b htpasswd NewUser NewPassword
Very useful nginx wiki.
Good Luck!
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Thanks Bruno, short and sweet.
There is an error in your example. location = /secret-folder {…} will not protect the content of the folder, you need to use location ^~ /secret-folder {…}
See http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpCoreModule#location for the detailed explanation.
Great,
Thanks Bruno.
“short and sweet” and will not work for /secret-folder/secret-file.html because of “=” sign
try this:
location ~ ^/secret-folder { auth_basic “Restricted”; authbasicuser_file /etc/nginx/htpass; }
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