Error setting up http authentication - 500 Internal Server Error

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:43:06AM -0800, Hari wrote:

> I am using the instruction given at
> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpAuthBasicModule#auth_basic
> 
> When i access the site i get prompted for username and password.
> After i enter the username and password i get the error "500 Internal
> Server Error"

What is in error_log ?

> When i have the following two lines commented out i do not get any error.
> #    auth_basic "osusu";
> #    auth_basic_user_file conf/passwd;
> 
> 
> What am i doing wrong?
> 
> Here is the setup of my conf file
> ==========================
> upstream domain1 {
>  server 127.0.0.1:8000;
>  server 127.0.0.1:8001;
> }
> 
> server {
>  listen   80;
>  server_name  www.osusu.com;
>  rewrite ^/(.*) http://domain.com permanent;
> }
> 
> 
> server {
>  listen   80;
>  server_name osusu.com;
> 
>  access_log /home/demo/public_html/domain.com/shared/log/access.log;
>  error_log /home/demo/public_html/domain.com/shared/log/error.log;
> 
>  root   /home/demo/public_html/domain.com/current/public/;
>  index  index.html;
> 
>  location / {
>    auth_basic "osusu";
>    auth_basic_user_file conf/passwd;
>    proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
>    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
>    proxy_redirect false;
> 
>    if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
>      rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
>    }
>    if (-f $request_filename.html) {
>      rewrite (.*) $1.html break;
>    }
>    if (!-f $request_filename) {
>      proxy_pass http://domain1;
>      break;
>    }
>  }
> }
> =================
> 
> I created the conf file using the utility htpasswd.
> 
> Any help on this is greatly appretiated...
> 
> -- 
> Hariharan Venkata
> 

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Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/