Nginx location ~ /\.ht
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
This directive tells the webserver to deny all incoming requests for any files starting with .ht
in the root directory (/
).
The tilde ~
tells nginx to use regular expressions.
Thus, files like .htaccess
, .htpasswd
, etc, will not be served.
Note: The backslash (\
) before the dot, is just to escape the dot (the dot that comes before htaccess
, htpassword
, etc.
Say your website is example.com. The particular location will be example.com/.ht
. So the deny all
directive will deny all requests to example.com/.ht*
. (* indicate any following string)
~
say nginx
to go for regular expression based matching. /
is root directory of your website. \
is escape character. It says to interpret .
literally and not as a part of regular expression.