Igor any change auth_basic_user_file can accept the new regex stuff?

[mike]

Igor, and the original author of the patch - you guys rock. Thank you.
This actually solves a problem I tried months ago and had to write
some custom script which sucked. Now, my users can use this without
having to ask me to re-run the script.

Seems to work like a charm and it allows for infinitely deep recursion

/foo/ works
/foo/a/b/c/ works

etc.

It does suck that nginx throws a 500 internal server error when no
.htpasswd exists.

Could there be a way with this dynamic auth_basic_user_file thing that
it just issues a 403 instead of a 500?


2009/3/14 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:26:07PM -0700, mike wrote:
>
>> Yes please!
>
> The patch.
>
>> Thanks :)
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:25:14AM -0700, mike wrote:
>> >
>> >> i.e.:
>> >>
>> >> location ~* ^/foo/private/(.*) {
>> >>    alias /home/foo/web/private/$1/;
>> >>    auth_basic "Restricted files";
>> >>    auth_basic_user_file /home/foo/web/private/$1/.htpasswd;
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> Thank you so much for your time and effort in nginx! Hopefully this is
>> >> pretty trivial.
>> >
>> > There's patch by Kirill A. Korinskiy in Russian mailing list, that
>> > allows variables in auth_basic_user_file. I will look it and if it's good,
>> > will include it.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Igor Sysoev
>> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
>> >
>> >
>
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