Auth_basic 500 error

[Tom Valentine]

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
> 


Currently one line, I had a few more user/password combinations in at 
one point when I was trying to figure out what was going wrong.

Tom