simple auth question for nested sections

B.R. reallfqq-nginx at yahoo.fr
Wed Mar 23 11:20:17 UTC 2016


Why would you want to do that? Spaghetti configuration?
Some advice from Igor Sysoev: https://youtu.be/YWRYbLKsS0I
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*B. R.*

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Jonathan Vanasco <nginx at 2xlp.com> wrote:

> apologies for the simple question, but i could only find the opposite
> situation in the list archives and I haven't had to reconfigure some of
> these routes in years!
>
> i have
>
>         # works
>         location /foo {
>                 proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:6543;
>         }
>
> I want to lock down /foo/admin with basic auth
>
>         # works
>         location /foo/admin {
>                 proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:6543;
>                 auth_basic "Administrator Login";
>                 auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/_htpasswd/well-known;
>         }
>
> Is there a syntax for nesting the two together, so the /foo/admin would
> inherit the /foo configuration without the need to redeclare everything?
>
>         # something like
>         location /foo {
>                 proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:6543;
>                 location /foo/admin {
>                         auth_basic "Administrator Login";
>                         auth_basic_user_file
> /etc/nginx/_htpasswd/well-known;
>                 }
>         }
>
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