Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 01:31:13PM -0400, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
>
>
>> Ian Hobson wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Ohlstein wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ian Hobson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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;
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>> I would try
>>>>
>>>> location ^~ /ppg/ {
>>>> auth_basic "Hello, Please login";
>>>> auth_basic_user_file /var/www/site.com/passwords;
>>>> include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>>>> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Jim,
>>>
>>> I tried that, and got no style sheet, so I presumed that static files
>>> were not being served. However, you are right. It works.
>>>
>>> However, the error long in FireFox is telling me....
>>>
>>> Error: The stylesheet http://www.site.com/ppg/css/style.css was not
>>> loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css".
>>> Source File: http://www.site.com/ppg/
>>> Line: 0
>>>
>>> I've checked /etc/nginx/mine-types, and it claims type text/css for
>>> css files, and the default-type is application/octet-stream.
>>>
>>> So now I'm really confused.
>>>
>>> Ian
>>>
>>> p.s IE 6.0 is not so fussy. It simply leaves out some of the images :(
>>>
>>>
>> I don't know if you can nest a location block within a location block.
>> The Wiki would suggest not but I've never tested it. However, it would
>> be useful in this case if you could use:
>>
>> location ^~ /ppg/ {
>> auth_basic "Hello, Please login";
>> auth_basic_user_file /var/www/site.com/passwords;
>> location ~ .\php$ {
>> include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
typo - location ~ .\php$ {
+ location ~ \.php$ {
>> That way only your php scripts would be passed to php and others served
>> directly by nginx.
>>
>> Igor, is that possible?
>>
>
> Yes, it's possible, however, I do not advertise this since nested locations
> have some bugs in inheritance. But in this case it will work.
>
>
>
Thanks Igor.

Jim