Nginx HTTP basic auth – allowing IP or password-based access - lxadm | Linux administration tips, tutorials, HOWTOs and articlesFrom lxadm | Linux administration tips, tutorials, HOWTOs and articles nginx uses similar syntax to that of Apache to allow users to access a directory, depending if their IP or username/pass matches (i.e. you want all users to present a valid username/pass match, but want to let some automated checks coming from specified IPs through, i.e. from ldirectord or nagios). Here is an example to use bot
