I could not find the information on the web or in the wiki, so I try this list. I am the user of a free hosting service using nginx. So I cannot acces or edit conf files myself, but I can ask the admin and he will do it for me. Basically, I want to protect whole folders. I think that I have managed to do that by asking the admin to add these lines to the nginx.conf file: # Password Protect iby ppnx - Nginx Mailing List - English