CODEWITHSUNDEEP
nginx
Flux
Flux

Reputation: 10950

Set a cookie and redirect after nginx basic auth succeeds

How do I set a cookie and redirect right after an NGINX auth_basic succeeds on the same server?

It seems that some combination satisfy, auth_basic, or auth_request is needed for this, but the documentation only covers the case where authentication is outsourced to some external server. Thank you in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2093

Answers (1)

zaius
zaius

Reputation: 6409

I feel like there should be a better way, but you can trick try_files into doing this for you if you use an internal location.

location /cookie-drop {
  auth_basic "Please authenticate";
  auth_basic_user_file /your/htpasswd/file;
  # Using null as a hardcoded nonexistent file
  try_files null @cookie-drop;
}

location @cookie-drop {
  internal;
  add_header Set-Cookie "token=foo;Domain=example.com;Path=/";
  return 302 https://$host/
}

If you put the return 302 inside the /cookie-drop location, it will ignore the auth_basic setting. The try_files setting is the only thing I could find to redirect to an internal location like this. Maybe there's a better way though.

Upvotes: 2

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