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

Do you want a MORE secure password hash with nginx basic_auth? Do this:

echo "username:"$(mkpasswd -m sha-512) >> .htpasswd

SHA-512 is not considered nearly as good as bcrypt, but it's the best nginx supports at the moment.