user authentication with nginx

[Bob Stanton]

I want to send status back to nginx because of the map directive combined
with the alias directive:

events {
}
http {
  map $remote_user $profile_directory {
    default      $remote_user;
  }
  server {
     root                 /var/www/sites/dyvn/http;
    location / {
        auth_request /auth.html;
        alias /var/www/sites/mysite.com/http/$profile_directory/;
    }
  }
}





On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Javi Lavandeira <javi at lavandeira.net>wrote:

> From what you've told us so far, it looks like you just want an HTML form
> and a CGI to process it and then send some HTML back to the user.
>
> You don't need to complicate things too much. Just set up FastCGI with
> your scripting language of choice, and don't worry about sending back an
> HTTP status code to NGINX. The web server needs to know the code only if
> you're going to implement error pages for common HTTP errors. Most of the
> time you just send a human-readable error message with your HTML.
>
>
> --
> Javi Lavandeira
>
> *Twitter*: @javilm
> *Blog*: http://www.lavandeira.net/blog
>
> On 2012/08/20, at 21:33, Bob Stanton <farseas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How else would you do it?
>
> I don't want to use basic_auth because I want to be able to style my own
> form.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Javi Lavandeira <javi at lavandeira.net>wrote:
>
>> Make your CGI/PHP/Python/Perl script return a "Status: xxx" header.
>>
>> I'm curious, why do you need to do it this way?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Javi Lavandeira
>>
>> *Twitter*: @javilm
>> *Blog*: http://www.lavandeira.net/blog
>>
>> On 2012/08/20, at 19:42, Bob Stanton <farseas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for my lack of precision.  I know how to do all the below, I just
>> don't know how to tell nginx whether or not user authentication was
>> successful.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Javi Lavandeira <javi at lavandeira.net>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On 2012/08/20, at 6:32, Bob Stanton <farseas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I specifically want to supply my own form, get the username and PW,
>>> check it against my DB with a CGI program, and then pass values back to
>>> Nginx.
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you mean that you want to know how to create an HTML form, pass the
>>> parameters to a CGI, and then return an HTML output to the user?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Javi Lavandeira
>>>
>>> *Twitter*: @javilm
>>> *Blog*: http://www.lavandeira.net/blog
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