diff --git a/readme-vars.yml b/readme-vars.yml
index 1a629a3..076e6cf 100755
--- a/readme-vars.yml
+++ b/readme-vars.yml
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ app_setup_block: |
 
 # changelog
 changelogs:
-  - { date: "05.02.23:", desc: "[Existing users should update:](https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/blob/master/README.md#updating-configs) proxy.conf - Add includable confs for authentik" }
+  - { date: "09.02.23:", desc: "[Existing users should update:](https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/blob/master/README.md#updating-configs) proxy.conf - Add includable confs for authentik" }
   - { date: "21.01.23:", desc: "Unpin certbot version (allow certbot 2.x). !!BREAKING CHANGE!! We are temporarily removing the certbot porkbun plugin until a new version is released that is compatible with certbot 2.x." }
   - { date: "20.01.23:", desc: "Rebase to alpine 3.17 with php8.1." }
   - { date: "16.01.23:", desc: "Remove nchan module because it keeps causing crashes." }
diff --git a/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-location.conf.sample b/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-location.conf.sample
index ddeb42c..32c9b53 100644
--- a/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-location.conf.sample
+++ b/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-location.conf.sample
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Version 2023/02/05 - Changelog: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/commits/master/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-location.conf.sample
+## Version 2023/02/09 - Changelog: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/commits/master/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-location.conf.sample
 # Make sure that your authentik container is in the same user defined bridge network and is named authentik-server
 
 ## Send a subrequest to Authentik to verify if the user is authenticated and has permission to access the resource.
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ auth_request /outpost.goauthentik.io/auth/nginx;
 ## If the subreqest returns 200 pass to the backend, if the subrequest returns 401 redirect to the portal.
 error_page 401 = @goauthentik_proxy_signin;
 
-## Save the upstream metadata response headers from Authentik to variables.
+## Translate response headers from Authentik into variables
 auth_request_set $authentik_username $upstream_http_x_authentik_username;
 auth_request_set $authentik_groups $upstream_http_x_authentik_groups;
 auth_request_set $authentik_email $upstream_http_x_authentik_email;
 auth_request_set $authentik_name $upstream_http_x_authentik_name;
 auth_request_set $authentik_uid $upstream_http_x_authentik_uid;
 
-## Inject the metadata response headers from the variables into the request made to the backend.
+## Inject the response header variables into the request made to the actual upstream
 proxy_set_header X-authentik-username $authentik_username;
 proxy_set_header X-authentik-groups $authentik_groups;
 proxy_set_header X-authentik-email $authentik_email;
diff --git a/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-server.conf.sample b/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-server.conf.sample
index 27698c3..9f482c3 100644
--- a/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-server.conf.sample
+++ b/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-server.conf.sample
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-## Version 2023/02/05 - Changelog: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/commits/master/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-server.conf.sample
+## Version 2023/02/09 - Changelog: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/commits/master/root/defaults/nginx/authentik-server.conf.sample
 # Make sure that your authentik container is in the same user defined bridge network and is named authentik-server
 
 # location for authentik subfolder requests
 location ^~ /outpost.goauthentik.io {
+    auth_request off; # requests to this subfolder must be accessible without authentication
     include /config/nginx/proxy.conf;
     include /config/nginx/resolver.conf;
     set $upstream_authentik authentik-server;
diff --git a/root/defaults/nginx/proxy.conf.sample b/root/defaults/nginx/proxy.conf.sample
index 2eb857e..967d170 100644
--- a/root/defaults/nginx/proxy.conf.sample
+++ b/root/defaults/nginx/proxy.conf.sample
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## Version 2023/02/05 - Changelog: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/commits/master/root/defaults/nginx/proxy.conf.sample
+## Version 2023/02/09 - Changelog: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag/commits/master/root/defaults/nginx/proxy.conf.sample
 
 # Timeout if the real server is dead
 proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503;