Deny access to directory, allow access to files NGINX

Hello, @QwertySpace

I’ve noticed that another community user have asked the same question and he was able to achieve this in this posted question:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-restrict-multiple-directories-with-nginx-but-still-access-files

In my case, I wanted to restricted people from wondering around my server just by typing the www.exemple.com/test1/test2 and be able to see what is inside it without specifying the direct link to it example: www.exemple.com/test1/test2/image1.png

There is a command also that is important that sets a priority of file searching;

location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; }

This command means it will try to access the file 1st then the folder then give you an error 404 if nothing works. More info: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17798457/how-can-i-make-this-try-files-directive-work

Hope this helps.

Regards, Alex

Hello, @QwertySpace

You should be able to set this using:

auth_basic "Admin Access";

instead of:

auth_basic "Restricted";
location ~* \..*$ {
autoindex off;

Hope this helps,

Let me know how it goes.

Regards, Alex