NginxHttpAuthBasicModule with Sinatra & Passenger

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 09:24:57AM -0400, scainey wrote:

> I'm serving static pages from a Sinatra application using Nginx 
> & Phusion Passenger.
> 
> I've implemented Basic Authentication for one page on the site 
> using NginxHttpAuthBasicModule, the authentication succeeds but 
> Nginx doesn't resolve the link. Error log gives - 
> 
>     2010/03/22 12:15:19  7143#0: *2902 open() 
>     "/home/me/live/mysite_home/public
>     /mypage" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 
>     82.71.18.122, server: mysite.com, request: "GET /mypage 
>     HTTP/1.1", host: "mysite.com"
> 
> The actual file is found at:
> 
>      /home/me/live/mysite_home/live/mypage.erb

[...]

> Not sure if this is a Sinatra, Passenger or Nginx thing, or if 
> I'm just missing something.

The request to /mypage maps to <root>/mypage file, this is quite 
normal and nothing in your config suggests any other 
interpretation.

If you expect this to be handled somehow by passenger - it's 
probably good idea to report the problem to passenger folks.  
AFAIK there are no passenger folks here.

Maxim Dounin