Nginx gives an Internal Server Error 500 after I have configured basic auth

Question

I am trying to do basic auth on Nginx. I have version 1.9.3 up and running on Ubuntu 14.04 and it works fine with a simple html file.

Here is the html file:

Answer 1

I will just stick the htpassword file under "/etc/nginx" myself. Assuming it is named htcontrol, then ...

sudo htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/htcontrol calvin

Follow the prompt for the password and the file will be in the correct place.

location / {
    ...

    auth_basic "Restricted";
    auth_basic_user_file htcontrol;
}

or auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htcontrol; but the first variant works for me