auth_basic 500 Internal Server Error

[Steve Holdoway]

On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 00:20 +0300, wishmaster wrote:
> 
>  --- Original message ---
> From: "Reinis Rozitis" <r at roze.lv>
> Date: 24 June 2013, 23:00:48
> 
>  
> > > 2013/06/24 22:03:05 [crit] 34189#0: *1 open() 
> > > "/usr/local/etc/nginx/authpw" failed (13: Permission denied)
> > >
> > > # ls -lo ./authpw
> > > -r--r-----  1 root  www  - 50 24 чер 21:58 ./authpw
> > >
> > > What I have missed?
> > 
> > The error log kind of explains - the auth file is not readable by nginx 
> > user.
> > 
> > Do you have specified the 'www' group in the nginx config ( 
> > http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#user ) ?
>  
> Off course,
>    user  www www;
>    worker_processes  1;
>    ......
> 
The error is extremely specific. Look at permissions of file ( looks ok
), and all parent directories. www ( user and group ) doesn't have
access to one of them.

You only showed permissions of ./authpw. Can you confirm you were
in /usr/local/etc/nginx at the time?

Steve
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