On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:58:21AM +0200, Tomasz Pajor wrote:

> You could try something like this.
>
> geo $need_auth {
> default 1;
> 192.168.1.0/24 0;
> }
>
> server {
> ...
> location / {
> if ($need_auth) {
> <auth>
> }
> }
> }

"satisfy any" is better;

> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a service which should be protected using Basic Authentication,
> > but this authentication should be enabled only for people who connect
> > to my service from "the outside of my LAN". Other people (inside LAN)
> > should not have any authentication.
> >
> > Is this possible? How to do that? I couldn't figure out how to use
> > combination of allow/deny with basic authentication for certain
> > location (maybe this is wrong way...).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kamil
> >
> >
>

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