Hi all,
I'm trying to set up basic authentication to protect an area of the
website served by php.

The critical bits of my server directive are.

server (
listen 80;
server_name site.com www.site.com;
root /var/www/site.com/htdocs;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
access_log /var/www/site.com/access.log;

location ~ \.php {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

location ^~ /usage/ {
auth_basic "Hello, Please login";
auth_basic_user_file /var/www/site.com/passwords;
}

location ^~ /ppg/ {
auth_basic "Hello, Please login";
auth_basic_user_file /var/www/site.com/passwords;
}
}

The directory /usage/ does NOT contain any php files and works just fine.

The directory /ppg/ contains index.php - which is sent to the browser,
not to fastcgi :(

So how can I configure it. (If basic-auth cannot work, it would be ok
to use
allow and deny all.)

I'm using nginx 0.6.35

Thanks

Ian