Nginx ignores HTTP Authentication for WordPress login directory
- by MrNerdy
I am running WordPress in a subfolder of my domain for testing and development purposes on a VPS LEMP-stack. In order to password-protect the wp-login.php with an etxra layer, I used HTTP authentication for the wp-admin folder.
The problem is that the http authentication is ignored. When the wp-login.php or wp-admin-folder is called, it goes directly to the normal WordPress-login.
I installed everything from the command line in the following way:
sudo apt-get install apache2-utils
sudo htpasswd -c /var/www/bitmall/wp-admin/.htpasswd exampleuser
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user exampleuser
My Nginx configuration file looks like this:
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location /bitmall/wp-admin/ {
auth_basic "Restricted Section";
auth_basic_user_file /var/www/bitmall/wp-admin/.htpasswd;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /var/www;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
I would appreciate your advive on this.
