Nginx – How To Use User Directories With Nginx With Authentication

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I am using Debian based host and using Nginx and PHP-FPM, I wants to enable user directories in nginx and wants multiuser support with basic authentication also. That means when Alex open www.example.com/rutorrent; That will prompt for login and password and after authentication, This should point to his own version of php script located at /home/alex/www/rutorrent and when Bob will open www.example.com/rutorrent;That will prompt for login and password and after authentication This should point to his php script located at /home/bob/www/rutorrent.

I already tried the official documentation located here:
http://wiki.nginx.org/UserDir

But i am not sure how configure them into default file so that i can get my desired functionality, My default config file of nginx is here:

server {
    server_name localhost;

    location / {
          try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    location /doc/ {
           alias /usr/share/doc/;
           autoindex on;
           allow 127.0.0.1;
           allow ::1;
           deny all;
     }

     index index.php index.html index.htm;
     location ~ ^/~([^/]*)(.*)\.php$ {
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            auth_basic "Restricted";
            auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/sites-available/.htpasswd;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/$1/www$2.php;
            include fastcgi_params;

     }

     location ~ ^/~([^/]*)(.*) {
            autoindex on;
            alias /home/$1/www$2;
            auth_basic "Restricted";
            auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/sites-available/.htpasswd;
     }

      location /RPC2 {
            include scgi_params;
            scgi_pass localhost:5000;
     }


}

Is there any way to get this?

Best Answer

Thanks to help me, I got clue to fix User Directories issue, I am using $remote_user variable in main nginx config file, Nginx capture user name in $remote_user variable while we use basic authentication, So very nice and easy way to use User Directories if we include like in this way: 

/home/$remote_user/..
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