Password protecting Rails site running on Nginx and Phusion Passenger
You need to re-specify passenger_enabled in the location block.
You can let Rails handle the authentication
# application_controller.rbbefore_filter :authenticateprotecteddef authenticate authenticate_or_request_with_http_basic do |username, password| username == "foo" && password == "bar" endendalso you should set config.serve_static_assets = true in your environment.rb (or applicaion.rb in Rails 3) so that the static assets in public go through the same filter.
Check your Nginx error log. 403 means that you got the path to your password file wrong.