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

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:

<Location /foo>
  AuthType Basic
  AuthName Restricted
  AuthBasicProvider file
  AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd
  AuthGroupFile /etc/apache2/groups
  Require group somegroup
</Location>

AuthType Basic

AuthName Restricted

AuthBasicProvider file

AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd

AuthGroupFile /etc/apache2/groups

Require group somegroup

</Location>

However, there’s no AuthGroupFile in nginx…. Continue Reading →

Nginx and Metalog

Metalog is an easily configurable system logger daemon which can be substituted for standard syslogd and klogd. It has one limitation though, that you cannot log to remote machines. It’s very easy to configure Nginx to use Syslog (Metalog, in… Continue Reading →

April 13, 2013 0

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

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