Hello!

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 03:26:14PM -0400, Varix wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> I want a login for this location.
>
> location /TEST/ {
> alias /www/c2c/;
> }
>
> With
>
> location /TEST/ {
> alias /www/c2c/;
> auth_basic "Test Auth";
> }
>
> no username/password box in the browser. I see the index.html site from the
> c2c folder

This is expected. Both auth_basic and auth_basic_user_file must
be set for auth_basic to work.

> With
>
> location /TEST/ {
> alias /www/c2c/;
> auth_basic "Test Auth";
> auth_basic_user_file /nginx/conf/htpasswd;
> }
>
> and an "404 Not Found" error shows the browser.

This likely indicate you have some error_page's configured, and
they intercept "401 Unauthorized" returned. Try looking into your
configs and into error log.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/

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