On Wednesday 31 of August 2011 12:07:27 ssaravalli wrote:
> Hello to everybody, my name is Simone Saravalli and I'm new to NGINX
> world.
>
> This is my problem: I set up NGINX as a reverse proxy to a backend
> server with Apache. On NGINX side I configured basic authentication for
> / location:
>
> location / {
> auth_basic "Restricted";
> auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd;
> proxy_pass http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
> proxy_redirect off;
> proxy_set_header Authorization "";
> proxy_set_header Host $host;
> proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
> proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For
> $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
> proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on;
> }

You're removing Authorization request header before sending request to Apache
server. That's why Apache cannot authenticate user.

Comment-out the following line and try again:

proxy_set_header Authorization "";

Best regards, Brane

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