How to block POST requests?

[Calomel]

Rt, 

Do you have other "if" statements that do work?

Did you install from source or package? The regular expressions module
which contains the logic for "if" is called ngx_http_rewrite_module.
If you built from source and possibly left this module out then I could
see an error being reported.

I tested the following "if" statement in the server{...} block. I built
from source (Nginx 0.7.x and 0.6.x) and it worked without issue. No
errors in any of the logs.

## Only allow GET and HEAD request methods. Deny all others.
      if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD)$ ) {
         return 444;
      }

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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 07:50:40PM -0700, Rt Ibmer wrote:
>>You can also use regular expressions for a bit more flexibility. This
>>way you can explicitly accept only the request methods you allow and
>>return the error code of your choosing.
>
>>## Only allow GET and HEAD request methods
>>      if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD)$ ) {
>>         return 444;
>>      }
>
>Hello - I am using the latest nginx 6.  When I try to do as you say above I am getting the error in the nginx error file: unknown directive "if" in xyz.log
>
>I am using your exact block as above and from your web page, like this:
>
>  if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD)$ ) {
>         return 444;
>  }
>
>I have tried this within the main server directive as well as from within location directives, but always get this error.  Obviously I am missing something? Thanks.
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