Igor any change auth_basic_user_file can accept the new regex stuff?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:26:50AM -0700, mike wrote:

> 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?

Probably 403 should be return in both cases (static and dynamic) if error
is file not found.

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

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