HTTP 'auth_basic' Error on NGINX

Question

My code to secure the wp-login page is throwing an error: nginx: [emerg] invalid number of arguments in "auth_basic" directive in /etc/nginx/conf.d/wordpress.conf:41

I am not sure what is wrong within the auth_basic directive.

The following is the code located within the server block on NGINX 1.17.10

location /wp-login.php$ { auth_basic “Administrator’s Area”; auth_basic_user_file /etc/apache2/.htpasswd; }

apache2-utils has been installed and the user and password has been created for the same too.

Correct the quotes in `“Administrator’s Area”` to straight ones? `"Administrator’s Area"` — Danila Vershinin, Jun 29 '20 at 07:30
Worked! But, it still won't show the authentication popup. Not sure what is incorrect here — Pramathesh Saha, Jun 29 '20 at 09:10
Hmm, they should really fix their docs to be compatible with the software itself... — Jonas Czech, Jul 15 '21 at 14:54

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '21 at 13:53

Using the comments answered this question for me - from @danila-vershinin:

Correct the quotes in “Administrator’s Area” to straight ones? "Administrator’s Area"

and @jason-prawn:

Those bad quotes happen when you copy from the nginx docs

(I did exactly that, link to the nginx docs I was using)

HTTP 'auth_basic' Error on NGINX

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