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nginx website behind a router connects ok with myserver.local but asks for username and password when accessed via my myserver.mydomain.com

All I wanted is to expose one of my Node.js test sites to some outside users and it asks for username and password. How can I do this?

My configuration consists of an apt-get(ed) nginx and my website .conf file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/website.conf

server {
        listen          80;
        server_name     myserver.local;

        access_log      /var/log/nginx/myserver.local.access.log combined;
        location / {
                proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:8080;
                proxy_set_header        Host    $host;
                proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        }
}
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  • What does "behind a router" mean?
    – Michael Hampton
    Mar 14, 2015 at 17:11
  • Lan ip is 192.168.0.10 and the router 192.168.0.1 and I forward the 80 port on 192.168.0.10 to port 80 on 192.168.0.1 manually form the router.
    – unom
    Mar 14, 2015 at 17:14
  • This doesn't sound like a professional setup. Is this some kind of home router? What router? Have you considered the possibility that the router is doing this instead of forwarding the traffic?
    – Michael Hampton
    Mar 14, 2015 at 17:21
  • It's a Linksys, I do this routinely for VNC or SSH, my external ip never changes so I can ssh directly to a machine on my lan through the router.
    – unom
    Mar 14, 2015 at 17:25
  • @MichaelHampton any thoughts on this, the 401 Unauthorized is certainly Nginx having some kind of security all around. Maybe it's figuring out URL is myserver.mydomain.com instead of myserver.local
    – unom
    Mar 15, 2015 at 11:22

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Managed to fix this one. Had to add the myserver.mydomain.com next to the local one and default.

server {
        listen          80 default;
        server_name     myserver.local myserver.mydomain.com;

        access_log      /var/log/nginx/myserver.local.access.log combined;
        location / {
                proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:8080;
                proxy_set_header        Host    $host;
                proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        }
}
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