Zelut’s Blog

I have a domain that I use to hold my notes, personal wiki, html versions of books and magazines, and other assorted resources.  Much of this I want to remain private so I’ve implemented Lighttpd access restrictions at the root of those directories.  I had a little bit of trouble this evening adding additional directories to my restriction list, so I thought I would make a note of it here.  Hopefully it’ll help anyone else running into similar trouble.


$HTTP["host"] =~ "domain.tld" {
auth.require = (
"/secret/" => (
"method"    => "basic",
"realm"     => "Password Protected Area",
"require"   => "valid-user",
),
"/private/" => (
"method"    => "basic",
"realm"     => "Password Protected Area",
"require"   => "valid-user",
)
)
}

The cause of my problem was the missing comma between the directory names. If you’re going to limit access to multiple directories in a list like this it needs to be a comma separated list.