Geoserver NGINX configuration - amazon-ec2

Question

I'm new to Nginx and EC2 and trying to add some simple authentication as below. It's a one page app and i want to secure the access to the page but not the tile server. With no authentication all works well. With authentication as the below I get back an error saying;
http://map.domain.org.uk is requesting your username and password. The site says: “GeoServer Realm”
I think this is because I've set authentication for any location and the tiles sit under that. How would I set up to just require authentication for the equivalent of a landing page?
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/domain.org.uk/public_html;
index index.html;
server_name domain.org.uk www.domain.org.uk map.domain.org.uk;
access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.org.uk.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/domain.org.uk.error.log;
# auth_basic "Server level Password required to proceed";
# auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/conf.d/.htpasswd;
location /geoserver/gwc/service/wmts {
auth_basic off;
#also tested without auth_basic off;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/geoserver/gwc/service/wmts;
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
auth_basic "Location level Password required to proceed";
auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/conf.d/.htpasswd;
}
}

Answer 1

Try running http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms?request=GetCapabilities
Also, I think This is useful for you in this case.
This uses curl utility to issue HTTP requests that test authentication. Install curl before proceeding.
Also, check /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com Here on Linode.
Example
upstream appcluster{
server linode.example.com:8801;
server linode.example.com:8802 weight=1;
}