Group based HTTP basic authentication using Nginx and MySQL with help of Lua

Posted on March 8, 2016     2 Comments

Recently I moved from Apache to Nginx on one of my servers due to increase in traffic. But I was using HTTP Basic authentication with group based authorization on Apache in this manner: However, there’s no AuthGroupFile  in nginx. But LUA, a programming language is supported in nginx. So here’s how I used LUA and […]

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