howto create conditional basic authentication

[Ryan Malayter]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Paul Swielingen <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an operational NGINX server with e few dozen location {}
> definitions
>
> When a connection is made from an internal network towards the server
> the client browser gets all the pages. Now I like to add external
> access, but I need to require basic authentication. Can this be done
> without duplication of these few dozen location {} definitions or ???
>

I think creative use of the "include" directive can eliminate the
duplication for you. Keep the config for locations in separate files,
and then include them as appropriate. You can also have an include for
authentication.
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpMainModule#include

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