From: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlTS8BlL-OtDvQwLk1ohkRAmfCb_U5yOvQ <Roland@web>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 11:20:55 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Added information about how to use httpauth with ngnx
X-Git-Tag: debian/3.20150329~37
X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/commitdiff_plain/12841c8a86cc474e27103e33a373214db79e0bcf?ds=inline

Added information about how to use httpauth with ngnx
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn b/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn
index 2fae07739..58a08599c 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/httpauth.mdwn
@@ -35,3 +35,12 @@ configure `httpauth_pagespec` in the setup file. This makes Edit
 links on pages that match the [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] automatically use
 the `cgiauthurl`, and prevents matching pages from being edited by
 users authentication via other methods.
+
+## Using httpauth with nginx
+
+You have to pass the $remote_user variable to the CGI:
+
+    location /ikiwiki.cgi {
+        fastcgi_param REMOTE_USER $remote_user;
+        ....
+    }