Hello,

I am new to nginx.

I have a Rails 3.1 site (with Passenger) that I want to protect from viewing while it is being developed. With Apache, I would create a .htaccess file in the HTML root to force the browser client to prompt for a user/pass. I want to do the same thing in NGINX.

I have created a the file /opt/nginx/conf/htpasswd which contains:

admin:some_md5_password_here

I have the following in /opt/nginx/nginx.conf:

user webdev;
worker_processes 1;

error_log logs/error.log;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
passenger_root /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-3.0.7;
passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby1.9.1;

include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

access_log logs/access.log;

sendfile on;

keepalive_timeout 65;

include dev.nginx.conf;
}

Then, inside dev.nginx.conf, I have:

server {
passenger_enabled on;
root /var/www/my_app/public;
rails_env development;
server_name dev.my_domain.com;

location / {
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file htpasswd;
passenger_enabled on;
}
}


Everything works perfectly, EXCEPT it functions as if NO HTTP AUTH has been set! I am not prompted to enter a user/pass.

The logs show nothing related to any issues.

Why?

Thanks in advance for your help.