Error setting up http authentication - 500 Internal Server Error

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:09:08AM -0800, Hari wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Here is the setup in the top level conf file
> 
> ============================
> user www-data;
> worker_processes  1;
> 
> error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
> pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
> 
> events {
>     worker_connections  1024;
> }
> 
> http {
>     include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
>     default_type  application/octet-stream;
> 
>     access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;
>     error_log   /var/log/nginx/error.log;
> 
>     sendfile        on;
>     #tcp_nopush     on;
> 
>     #keepalive_timeout  0;
>     keepalive_timeout  65;
>     tcp_nodelay        on;
> 
>     gzip  on;
> 
>     include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
> 
> }
> ============================
> 
> Here are the messages from the error.log file in /var/log/nginx/error.log
> 
> demo at Himalaya:/etc/nginx$ cat /var/log/nginx/error.log
> 2008/02/25 15:45:59 [error] 5813#0: *1 open()
> "/var/www/nginx-default/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or
> directory), client: 208.54.15.154, server: localhost, URL:
> "/favicon.ico", host: "67.207.139.172"
> 2008/02/25 15:55:51 [error] 5917#0: *1 open()
> "/var/www/nginx-default/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or
> directory), client: 208.54.15.154, server: localhost, URL:
> "/favicon.ico", host: "67.207.139.172"

There should be an error line at the same time when you tried to access site.

> 
> Cheers
> Hari
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > 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
> >  >
> >
> >  --
> >  Igor Sysoev
> >  http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Hariharan Venkata
> Phone - 408-890-9738 (Cell)
> 

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Igor Sysoev
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