<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello!<div class=""><br class=""><table style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; border-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(36, 39, 41); font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class=""><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class=""><td class="votecell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="vote" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-align: center; min-width: 46px;"><a class="vote-up-off" title="This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear" style="margin: 0px auto 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1px; color: rgb(0, 119, 204); cursor: pointer; background-image: url(applewebdata://71BBBAA2-620D-4E62-89B4-4D4ABF5B2A00/img/sprites.svg?v=d689de80c4e2), none; overflow: hidden; display: block; text-indent: -9999em; width: 40px; height: 30px; background-position: 0px -170px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">up vote</a><span itemprop="upvoteCount" class=" vote-count-post" style="margin: 8px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 20px; display: block; color: rgb(106, 115, 124);"><br class=""></span><a class="vote-down-off" title="This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1px; color: rgb(0, 119, 204); cursor: pointer; background-image: url(applewebdata://71BBBAA2-620D-4E62-89B4-4D4ABF5B2A00/img/sprites.svg?v=d689de80c4e2), none; overflow: hidden; display: block; text-indent: -9999em; width: 40px; height: 30px; background-position: 0px -220px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">down vote</a><a class="star-off" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42380402/how-can-i-use-external-uri-with-the-nginxs-auth-request-module#" title="Click to mark as favorite question (click again to undo)" style="margin: 0px auto 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1px; color: rgb(0, 119, 204); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; background-image: url("img/sprites.svg?v=d689de80c4e2"), none; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow: hidden; display: block; text-indent: -9999em; width: 40px; height: 30px; background-position: 0px -120px;">favorite</a><div class="favoritecount" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; color: rgb(106, 115, 124);" class=""></span></div></div></td><td class="postcell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;" class=""><div class="post-text" itemprop="text" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; width: 660px; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.3;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both;" class="">I'm trying to use <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">nginx</code>'s <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">ngx_http_auth_request_module</code> in such way:</p><pre style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; width: auto; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); word-wrap: normal;" class=""><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: inherit;" class="">server {
location / {
auth_request <a href="http://external.url" class="">http://external.url</a>;
proxy_pass <a href="http://protected.resource" class="">http://protected.resource</a>;
}
}
</code></pre><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both;" class="">It doesn't work, the error is:</p><pre style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; width: auto; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); word-wrap: normal;" class=""><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: inherit;" class="">2017/02/21 02:45:36 [error] 17917#0: *17 open() "/usr/local/<a href="htmlhttp://external.url" class="">htmlhttp://external.url</a>" failed (2: No such file or directory), ...
</code></pre><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both;" class="">Or in this way with <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">named location</code>:</p><pre style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; width: auto; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); word-wrap: normal;" class=""><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: inherit;" class="">server {
location / {
auth_request @auth;
proxy_pass <a href="http://protected.resource" class="">http://protected.resource</a>;
}
location @auth {
proxy_pass <a href="http://external.url" class="">http://external.url</a>;
}
}
</code></pre><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both;" class="">In this case the error is almost the same:</p><pre style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; width: auto; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); word-wrap: normal;" class=""><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: inherit;" class="">2017/02/22 03:13:25 [error] 25476#0: *34 open() "/usr/local/html@auth" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 127.0.0.1, server: , request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", subrequest: "@auth", host: "127.0.0.1"
</code></pre><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both;" class="">I know there is a way like this:</p><pre style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; width: auto; max-height: 600px; overflow: auto; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); word-wrap: normal;" class=""><code style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Liberation Mono', 'DejaVu Sans Mono', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, sans-serif; white-space: inherit;" class="">server {
location / {
auth_request /_auth_check;
proxy_pass <a href="http://protected.resource" class="">http://protected.resource</a>;
}
location /_auth_check {
internal;
proxy_pass <a href="http://external.url" class="">http://external.url</a>;
}
}
</code></pre><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both;" class="">But in this case the <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="http://protected.resource" class="">http://protected.resource</a></code> can not use the <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">/_auth_check</code> path.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both;" class="">Is there a way to use an external <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">URI</code> as a parameter for the <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">auth_request</code> directive without overlapping the <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><a href="http://protected.resource" class="">http://protected.resource</a></code> routing?</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; clear: both;" class="">If not, why?<br class="">It looks a little bit strange to look for the <code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">auth_request</code>'s URI through static files (<code style="margin: 0px; padding: 1px 5px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, "Lucida Console", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(239, 240, 241); white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">/usr/local/html</code>).</p></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>