Nginx auth basic won't work for wordpress wp-login.php

Try this approach:

$ htpasswd -bc /tmp/secure_admin.txt admin password

Then on your nginx virtual host conf.

location ^~ /wp-login.php {    auth_basic           "Restricted Area: WordPress";    auth_basic_user_file /tmp/secure_admin.txt;}

Then restart the service:

$ service nginx restart

403 Forbidden after correct login:

This can be caused by permissions or a non-existent or invalid directory index directive.

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