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No Google Group - help, need to password protect single directory in container

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Hello,

I have tried to follow the instructions and done numerous searches elsewhere but I just cannot get a password protected location code block to appear inside a vhost container config.

I don’t want to password protect the whole container, just a single directory running off the web server on the container.

e.g.

location /linux/ {
    auth_basic "Restricted";
    auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpasswd/linux;
}

I have managed to bind the password file shown above inside the container from the host filesystem but cannot get the VIRTUAL_HOST / docker-gen to generate the required code block!

Hope anyone can help.

Thanks,

Paully

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Created 2 years ago
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plittlefieldcommented, Mar 23, 2021

Great, problem solved and I am closing this issue.

Hope it helps someone else.

Keep up the great work.

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plittlefieldcommented, Mar 23, 2021

OK, I think I may have solved the ‘bad news’ problem.

I am not sure if this is technically correct but I added an extra proxy_pass line to the extra /etc/nginx/vhost.d/example.com file, like so…

So, from this…

    location /linux/ {
        auth_basic      "Restricted";
        auth_basic_user_file    /etc/nginx/htpasswd/linux;
    }

To this…

    location /linux/ {
        auth_basic      "Restricted";
        auth_basic_user_file    /etc/nginx/htpasswd/linux;
        proxy_pass http://example.com;
    }

…and now the password protection works and it shows me the correct page at the correct location.

Does that look alright to everyone?