Custom 401 page not displaying or not prompting for credentials

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 02:40:14PM +0100, Michael wrote:

> Hello, I was trying to set a custom error 401 page on my Nginx server
> version 1.5.1 using the following methods:
> 
> error_page 401 /401.html
> By itself it still displays the default site
> 
> error_page 401 http://example.com/401.html
> Goes straight to the custom error page without a chance to authenticate
> 
> error_page 401 /401.html;
> location = /401.html
>         {
>            root   G:/Files;
>            allow all;
> Also goes straight to the error page.
> 
> 
> 
> My entire config file:
> 
> worker_processes 1;
> 
> events
> {
>     worker_connections 1024;
> }
> 
> http
> {
>     include mime.types;
>     default_type application/octet-stream;
>     sendfile on;
> 
>     server
>     {
>         satisfy any;
>         allow 192.168.0.0/24;
>         deny all;
>         auth_basic "Please login";
>         auth_basic_user_file C:\password.txt;
>         listen 80;
>         server_name localhost;
>         root G:/Files;
> 
>         location /
>         {
>             index  index.html  index.php /_h5ai/server/php/index.php;
>   error_page 401 /401.html;
>             location = /401.html
>   {
>   root G:/Files;
>   }
>         }
>         location ~ \.php$
>         {
>             include fastcgi.conf;
>             fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
>         }
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> If anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong, let me know.

Access to /401.html requires authentication, which prevents the 
error page configured from being returned.  Try adding

    auth_basic off;

into location /401.html.

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Maxim Dounin
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