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This is just a quick note on how to password protect wp-admin using nginx.

You may have to fiddle with the location of the lines in the site.conf file.

Where I thought the config variables needed to go, gave me a “download file” of type bin in nginx after authentication.

So, here is how I did it:

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server {
   listen 80;
   server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
   access_log /logs/domain.com-access.log;
   error_log /logs/domain.com-error.log;
   root /var/www/sites/domain.com/htdocs;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri;
	   }
include /usr/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
include /usr/nginx/conf/php.conf;
include /usr/nginx/conf/drop.conf;

        # password protect wp-admin
                location ~ ^/wp-admin {
                auth_basic “Restricted”;
                auth_basic_user_file /path/to/htpasswd/file;
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri;
                }
}

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