Allow/Deny rules in Location block

[Reinis Rozitis]

> There are other locations like /auth, /auth/, /auth/admin, /auth/admin/ and few more which have the same rules. I am trying to restrict access to /auth and /auth/admin which are sensitive for public access. Do you think removing "=" can help in this case? 


'=' in location definition means that nginx will use it only on exact uri match.

if you have location = /auth {} but client requests /auth/admin (unless you have also location = /auth/admin) then that particular location configuration won't be used and will match the 'location / {}' which in your configuration sample was proxied without any deny rules.

By removing the '=' it means all the /auth, /auth/* requests will be processed in that location.

Good to also check the documentation on it http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location

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