Nginx and ipv6

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 08:57:06AM -0500, vlad59 wrote:

[...]

>         location ~ ^/(data|conf|bin|inc) {
>                 deny all;
>         }

[...]

> Yesterday I made one change listen 80 -> listen [::]:80 (to enable ipv6)
> and all the forbidden directories are not protected anymore (anybody
> with ipv4 or ipv6 can access them). Reverting to ipv4 (listen 80) fix
> the problem.
> 
> I tried to change my configuration file that way 
> [code]
> listen   80; ## listen for ipv4
> listen   [::]:80 default ipv6only=on;
> [/code]
> to have two explicit bind.
> 
> And if I force my browser to use ipv4 the directories are protected. If
> my browser use ipv6 the directories are not protected anymore.
> 
> So I have many questions :
>  - Is my configuration file wrong ?
>  - Is there something wrong with ipv6 and nginx ?
>  - Does anybody already had this problem ?

Access module (allow/deny directives) supports ipv6 as of 0.8.22+. 
If you are using older version - you have to upgrade.

Maxim Dounin