Rewrites will execute before authentication module handlers run; this is a
function of how Nginx is designed, and this order isn't configurable. See
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,41891,43112#msg-43112 and
http://www.nginxguts.com/2011/01/phases/.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Richard Stanway <r1ch+nginx@teamliquid.net>
wrote:

> How are you testing? 301 is permanent so it may be cached if you added the
> auth after the redirect. Try testing with curl from the command line to
> verify your results.
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a server block that contains the following:
>>
>> auth_basic "Please log in.";
>> location = / {
>> return 301 https://$host:$server_port/folder/;
>> }
>>
>> I noticed that /folder/ is appended to the URL before the user is
>> prompted for authentication. Can that behavior be changed?
>>
>> - Grant
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