disable symlink, possible?

[Edho P Arief]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Avleen Vig<avleen at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not possible. Trying to do so would be a major performance hit.
> With a feature like this, nginx would have to call stat() on every element
> in the path to make sure it's not a symlink.
> So instead of one stat() on
> /usr/local/www/domain/htdocs/dir/foo/bar/index.html, nginx would have to do
> nine!
>
> Madness :)
>

how about apache's <location >-like directive?

maybe something like

filepath / { deny all; }

filepath /var/www { allow all; }

?

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