Auth_basic 500 error

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:08:46PM +0100, nginx at tomvalentine.net wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I can not seem to get auth basic to work, my configuration works fine
> with everything else, but if I enable authorisation, I get a 500
> Internal Server Error
> 
> I think the key error is the Readfile() error, but I have no idea what
> it means or how to fix it.
> 
>   From nginx.conf
> 
> location / {
> 	index  index.html index.htm index.php;
> 	auth_basic private;
> 	auth_basic_user_file htpasswd;
> }
> 
> If anyone can help, thanks!
> By the way, I am using nginx/0.7.61 on Windows Vista, and the error
> happens in both Firefox/Opera

> 2009/07/09 17:01:45 [error] 1348#504: *3 ReadFile() failed (38: Reached the end of the file), client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost:88"

This is nginx bug, I will try to reproduce it. How big is your htpasswd ?


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