Cookie-based authentication with nginx

gistfile1.txt

worker_processes  1;

error_log  logs/error.log;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
    #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  logs/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    server {
        listen       8000;
        listen       content.nginx:8000;
        server_name  content.nginx;

        if (!-f /Users/username/nginx/cookies/$cookie_AUTH_COOKIE) {
            rewrite ^ http://auth.nginx:8000 break;
        }

        location / {
            root    /Users/username/nginx/content_html;
            index   index.html index.htm;
        }
    }

    server {
        listen       8000;
        listen       auth.nginx:8000;
        server_name  auth.nginx;

        location / {
            root    /Users/username/nginx/auth_html;
            index   index.html index.htm;
        }
    }

}