Deny access to hidden files and directories (and their content)

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 11:25:49AM +0300, Palvelin Postmaster via nginx wrote:

> I believe my current rexexp match isn’t proper because it’s missing an anchor from the pattern:
> 
> location ~ /\. {
> 	deny all;
> }
> 
> What would be more appropriate? Would this work?
> 
> location ~ /\..*$

There is no real difference between these two patterns, as ".*$" 
in the later one matches any characters till the line end, and 
hence won't make any difference compared to "/\." matched anywhere 
in the string.

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Maxim Dounin
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