Setting Allow / Deny Rules + Keep processing other location rules?

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 12:29:18PM -0400, Mayhem30 wrote:

> I'm having a heck of a time setting allow / deny rules for certain
> directories and files + getting Nginx to keep handling other location
> rules.
> 
> For example, I want to only allow my IP address access to the WordPress
> login page:
> 
>  location ~* wp-login.php {
>       allow 22.131.12.14;
>       deny all;
>   }
> 
>  # Pass off php requests to Apache
>  location ~* \.php$ {           
>        include /usr/local/etc/nginx/proxypass.conf;
>        proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:80;
>   }
> 
> When I visit the WordPress login page, all I see is the raw PHP code.
> 
> How can I set up the first location block to allow me to add allow / deny
> rules, charset, headers, etc + have PHP files still processed by the second
> location block?

To process a request nginx will select only one location block.
Therefore, the only way is to specify full configuration in a 
single location block.

E.g., in this particular case you have to write something like 
this:

    location ~* wp-login.php {
        allow 22.131.12.14;
        deny all;
        include /usr/local/etc/nginx/proxypass.conf;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:80;
    }

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Maxim Dounin
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