Disabling basic_auth with rewrites

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:59:37AM -0400, klausi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to generally protect my site but allow one certain path.
> However, I need rewrites to forward the requested path to a PHP file.
> Unfortunately the following does not work:
> 
> location ~ ^/feeds/importer/.* {
>   auth_basic off;
>   rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
> }
> 
> location ~ \.php$ {
>   auth_basic "protected";
>   auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd/protected;
>   fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
>   include fastcgi_params;
>   fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>   fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
>   fastcgi_pass $socket;
>   # workaround as fastcgi_param cannot be used inside if statements
>   set $https off;
>   if ($scheme = https) {
>     set $https on;
>   }
>   fastcgi_param HTTPS $https;
>   fastcgi_read_timeout 6000;
> }
> 
> location ~ ^/(.*) {
>   auth_basic "protected";
>   auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd/protected;
>   try_files $uri /index.php?q=$1&$args;
> }
> 
> Any ideas how to unprotect the first location?

    location / {
        auth_basic "protected";
        auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd/protected;
        ...

        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass ...
            ...
        }
    }

    location /feeds/importer/ {
        ...

        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass ...
            ...
        }
    }

Maxim Dounin