Remove Authentication Dialog in the browser when a particular folder is accessed

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 09:24:38PM -0400, tbt wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am new to nginx and I want to remove the dialog box that comes up
> requesting a username and password when the admin folder is accessed.
> eg; http://localhost/admin
> 
> The previous developer who handled this left suddenly and left no
> documentation. How can I remove this?

You have to remove or comment out auth_basic directive from your 
config.  See here for details:

http://nginx.org/r/auth_basic

Maxim Dounin