nginx allow all doesn't work

Question

I am trying to allow pinterest to access to my dev site's images, currently nginx deny.conf is using auth_basic and a list of allow IPs. There is no deny all in there. satisfy any is also in deny.conf

I added allow allto my site's config and restarted/reloaded nginx but still getting access denied from pinterest.

location ^~ ^/(cache|media|static)/ {
        allow all;
        access_log off;
        expires 1y;
    }

Any ideas?

Solution

try putting satisfy any; in your configuration. That tells nginx to accept either http authentication, or IP restriction. By default, when you define both, it will expect both.

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#satisfy