Nginx IP protected directory not working

[Patrick1]

Dear readers,

I searched the web endlessly but cant seem to figure this out.

I have several customers with wordpress domains. I want to protect these directory's with Nginx on a plesk 12 machine. I thought something simple will do, but i just spent all sunday afternoon getting it to work (what else is new)
.
I thought ;
location /wp-admin/ {
allow 123.123.123.123;
deny all;
satisfy all;
}
would do the trick, but no go, nginx isnt passing it to apache by the looks of it. I tried all kinds of possible solutions but cant get it to work. It works with files though. The logfile says directory index of "/var/www/vhosts/testdomain.eu/httpdocs/wp-admin/" is forbidden. This makes sense, since its turned off.

any suggestion on how to get this to work with plesk 12 and nginx ?
Regards,
Patrick

 

[Patrick1]

I figured out where the real problem is, its is because nginx talks to apache, so apache thinks that all requests
are coming from nginx.
I found out that X-real-IP is forwared to apache, but i cant make use of that in .htaccess.

So, how can i still make use of .htaccess files ?

Patrick

 

[Patrick1]

Found it.

Like i said, the real problem is that all calls to apache come from nginx.
To make use of the .htaccess again do the following in .htaccess;

Deny from All
SetEnvIF X-Forwarded-For "1.2.3.4" AllowIP
SetEnvIF X-Forwarded-For "2.3.4.5" AllowIP
Allow from env=AllowIP
Allow from 1.2.3.4
Allow from 2.3.4.5

then you can mak use of the .htaccess again like you used to.
I hope i save someone some time with this post.

Patrick