Documentation not clear on auth_basic_user_file

[r.luthiger@…]

On the page ​http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_auth_basic_module.html it is not very clear to what auth_basic_user_file is relative to.

Where exactly needs the file htpasswd to be when it is defined like this:

auth_basic_user_file conf/htpasswd;

is it /etc/nginx/conf/htpasswd or something else?

[Ilyas Bakirov]

Path is relative to nginx installation path, where nginx resides on OS. Also you can configure absolute path to files.

Examples:

1- nginx installed on OS in /etc/nginx - conf like auth_basic_user_file conf/htpasswd; then file is located in /etc/nginx/conf/htpasswd

2- nginx installed on OS in /opt/nginx - conf like auth_basic_user_file conf/htpasswd; then file is located in /opt/nginx/conf/htpasswd

3- nginx installed on OS in /usr/local/etc/nginx - conf like auth_basic_user_file /myfolder/conf/htpasswd; then file is located in /myfolder/conf/htpasswd

4- nginx installed on OS in C:\apps\nginx - conf like auth_basic_user_file conf/htpasswd; then file is located in C:\apps\nginx\conf\htpasswd

5- nginx installed on OS in C:\apps\nginx - conf like auth_basic_user_file C:/myfolder/conf/htpasswd; then file is located in C:\myfolder\conf\htpasswd

[maxim]

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