Error pages/Web Authentication

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 11:21:52PM -0400, HTF wrote:

> Maxim Dounin Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> > nginx uses only *one* configuration to process
> > request, please see 
> > here:
> > 
> > http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#location
> > 
> > If you want /administrator to be protected, but
> > still want php 
> > processed there, you have to define two locations
> > for this: one 
> > for protected static files and one for protected
> > php files.
> > 
> > Using nested location simple config will look
> > like:
> > 
> >     location ^~ /administrator {
> >         auth_basic ...
> >         ...
> > 
> >         location ~ \.php$ {
> >             fastcgi_pass ...
> >             ...
> >         }
> >     }
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Is this recommended/only configuration for this in my case - according
> to wiki from the link above (>
> http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#location):
> "While nested locations are allowed by the configuration file parser,
> their use is discouraged and may produce unexpected results. "

There were problems with nested locations somewhere near 0.7.*.  
They were resolved, wiki is just stale.

> Also could you please advise why the SHA and MD5 encryption for the
> basic authentication is not working for me. I receive password mismatch
> errors in the log files

What does nginx -v show?

Maxim Dounin