About Conditional Authentication with Nginx
For the staging website you can conditionally require authentication based on the user agent. Here is an example of nginx settings:
map $http_user_agent $authentication {
default "Access Restricted";
"~^Facebot" "off";
"~^Twitterbot" "off";
"~^Google \(\+https://developers.google.com/\+/web/snippet/\)" "off";
"~^Python-urllib" "off";
"~.+?googleimageproxy" "off";
"~^WeasyPrint" "off";
}
server {
# ...
location / {
# ...
auth_basic $authentication;
auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
}
}
This allows the website to be accessed by Facebook, Twitter, and Google logins, also by Python requests, and WeasyPrint library, but requires authentication for all other requests.
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