Allow /.well-known/acme-challenge but deny dot files

[nanaya]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017, at 17:45, Anoop Alias wrote:
> You can put it above the other deny location
> # Allow "Well-Known URIs" as per RFC 5785
> location ~* ^/.well-known/ {
> allow all;
> }
> 

Or use "^~" because it's of higher precedence compared to "~".

> If the longest matching prefix location has the “^~” modifier then regular expressions are not checked. 

http://nginx.org/r/location

location ^~ /.well-known/ { }