Yeah use /index.HTML for the location block
On Nov 6, 2012 8:43 PM, "Tharanga Abeyseela" <tharanga.abeyseela@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I need to add basic auth to my home page (index.html) (Served by
> nginx) and other directories resides on tomcat7. is there anyway i
> can add only authentication to index.html . i was using the following
> nginx configuration.
>
> server {
> access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
> error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
> index index.html;
> root /var/www/;
> server_name xxxxxxxx;
> }
>
> location / {
> auth_basic "Restricted";
> auth_basic_user_file /var/www/.htpass;
> }
>
>
>
> location /next {
> proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/next;
> proxy_redirect off;
> 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_max_temp_file_size 0;
> }
>
> when i try to add the above config, it asks for the user/pass, but it
> asks for the user/pass when i try to access /next. but i need to add
> authentication only to index.html. problem is using the root
> directory, so all requests will be tunneled through root and prompted
> for a password. but is there any way i can restrict access only to
> index.html, once it authenticated, users will be able to access tomcat
> paths .
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tharanga
>
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