Blog Archive for December 22, 2012

Securing nginx folders

December 22, 2012

I wanted to have a folder on my nginx webserver that prompts for a username/password before showing any html pages inside that folder.

Here's the existing location declaration in the nginx config:

location / {
  root            /home/drumcoder/web/drumcoder.co.uk;
  index           index.html;
}

Here's the new declaration that includes the secure folder

location …

Tags: nginx