Another auth/location question - probably very simple to fix :)

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:55:05PM -0700, mike wrote:

> prompts but only on the exact /wordpress/admin match:
> 
> location /wordpress/admin {
>    auth_basic "wordpress";
>    auth_basic_user_file /home/foo/web/foo.com/.htpasswd
>    location ~ \.php$ {
>      fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11000;
>      fastcgi_index index.php;
>    }
> }
> 
> doesn't prompt at all:
> 
> location ~ /wordpress/admin(.+) {
>    auth_basic "wordpress";
>    auth_basic_user_file /home/foo/web/foo.com/.htpasswd
>    location ~ \.php$ {
>      fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11000;
>      fastcgi_index index.php;
>    }
> }
> 
> am i missing something? i thought i had it fully secured. not sure if
> behavior changed from 0.7.4 or so to 0.7.10
> 
> i want everything under /wordpress/admin/ to require basic auth. i
> could have sworn this worked properly before, but now the first one
> prompts only for the / index, if i enter in a direct URL i get no
> prompt (like /wordpress/admin/post-new.php)

Do you have something like "location ~ \.php$" before
"location ~ /wordpress/admin(.+)" ?
If so, the former matchs "/wordpress/admin/post-new.php".


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