Hello, i just got a fresh install of wordpress and i installed Wordfence and it recommends me to hide user.ini because is public and anybody can have access to it.
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Hi @hcmendez:
You can make Nginx drop all requests to the file
.user.ini
by returning a HTTP 400 status code (or any other error code of your choice). Add the following to the Nginx server block for your WordPress site:This location block should be at the same level as other existing location blocks.
Then your server block should look like this: