Hi,
I have a PHP web application on my nginx server (Ubuntu). I have a folder called passports. I store passport images in that folder using a php upload page. I want to block access to that folder so that no one can go to:
http://mysite.com/images/passports/johnDoe’sPassport.jpeg
and look at the passports but at the same time my php file can upload to it and can get the link of the image within the application.
Please advice.
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PHP accesses the images through the filesystem, so if you block HTTP requests to /images/passports, you can block user access to that folder while still allowing PHP to access it.
Edit your nginx server block config and add the following lines:
location /images/passports {
deny all;
}
Then, reload Nginx so that the changes take effect:
sudo service nginx reload
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