Thanks David, i tried it. but it still asks the user/pass when i hit
the /next inside index.html
any idea why ?

thanks,
tharanga

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM, David J <david@styleflare.com> wrote:
> 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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