Sanity check of my config - is it secure?

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 26 Mai 2011 20h49 WEST, nginx-forum at nginx.us wrote:


> I presume in that case, if there was a script and no interpreter, it
> would just display the contents of the file - which again could be a
> security risk.

> So I need to perhaps limit the mime types that can be served, or the
> file extensions - which ever is most secure?


Do both. That's my advice. Regarding the later, something along the
lines of:


location ^~ /static_files_dir/ {
  
  location ~* /static_files_dir/.+\.(?:jpe?g|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
     expires 30d;
  }

  location ~* /static_files_dir/.*\.php$ {
     return 444; # return an empty response for a php file
  }  
}

--- appa