Hi, I want to use Nginx to protect the directory, and I found discourse-auth-proxy . How to configure nginx to require users to log in before they can access the directory?

What do you mean by “the directory” here?

for example: I posted in this post https://example.com/aaa/111.txt Guest users can see this post, But if download 111.txt, the guest user must log in. /aaa/111.txt provided by nginx. I have try Discourse SSO in Nginx , Seems to have failed.

I changed the subject to “How to make uploads available only to logged-in users” – That’s what you’re trying to do, right? From discourse-auth-proxy: That’s not going to do anything like what you describe. It will allow you to protect another site using Discourse as the authentication point. If …

There’s: prevent anons from downloading files Prevent anonymous users from downloading attachments. Would that be any use?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) November 9, 2021, 5:29pm 3

I don’t think that does what you think it does.

What are you trying to do, exactly?

Do you want Discourse to be protected by BASIC auth before a user can see it?

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