[nginx] how to restrict access to directory and subdirs

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Published on 2010-05-02T21:55:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/02 21:59 UTC
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I need to restrict access to any files or subdirs in direstory "testdir". My conf:

...
location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|txt)$ {
            root   /var/www/site;
        }
location /testdir {
        deny all;
        return 404;
        }
...

In my configuration I have no restrictions on /testdir/jpg_or_txt-files. How to do it?

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