Nginx: Protecting a folder using htaccess
First we need to install the htpasswd application, it is located in the apache2-utils package. This package has no dependencies on apache, so it is safe to install it – it will not download the full apache for you 🙂
To install it on ubuntu type:
sudo apt-get install apache2-utils
Once installed we can use it to create an htaccess file.
htpasswd -c -b /path/to/htpasswd NewUser NewPassword
Now we need to add one block to the nginx config. Bellow is the config for this site, the part in bold is what needs to be added.
server {
listen 80;
server_name sourcecodebean.com;
index index.php index.html;
root /path/to/web/root;
location ^~ /secret-dir/ {
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file /path/to/htpasswd;
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9200;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /path/to/web/root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Woho! All done!
