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June 10, 2013 12:58
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Block nginx from serving .git directories
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| location ~ /\.git { | |
| deny all; | |
| } | |
| # or, all . directories/files in general (including .htaccess, etc) | |
| location ~ /\. { | |
| deny all; | |
| } |
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404 makes it such as if the resource is not even there. While otherwise h@ck0rs could potentially find files or directories by just looking at the HTTP status codes. Therefore, I do like
404as well here.