HTTP 'auth_basic' Error on NGINX
Using the comments answered this question for me - from @danila-vershinin:
Correct the quotes in “Administrator’s Area” to straight ones? "Administrator’s Area"
and @jason-prawn:
Those bad quotes happen when you copy from the nginx docs
(I did exactly that, link to the nginx docs I was using)
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Pramathesh Saha almost 2 years
My code to secure the wp-login page is throwing an error:
nginx: [emerg] invalid number of arguments in "auth_basic" directive in /etc/nginx/conf.d/wordpress.conf:41
I am not sure what is wrong within the auth_basic directive.
The following is the code located within the server block on NGINX 1.17.10
location /wp-login.php$ { auth_basic “Administrator’s Area”; auth_basic_user_file /etc/apache2/.htpasswd; }
apache2-utils has been installed and the user and password has been created for the same too.
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Danila Vershinin almost 4 yearsCorrect the quotes in
“Administrator’s Area”
to straight ones?"Administrator’s Area"
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Pramathesh Saha almost 4 yearsWorked! But, it still won't show the authentication popup. Not sure what is incorrect here
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Jason Prawn over 3 yearsThose bad quotes happen when you copy from the nginx docs
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JonasCz almost 3 yearsHmm, they should really fix their docs to be compatible with the software itself...
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