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Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition
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Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

by Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald, Nedelcu
February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
9h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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disable_symlinks

This directive allows you to control the way Nginx handles symbolic links when they are to be served. By default (the directive value is off), symbolic links are allowed and Nginx follows them. You may decide to disable the following symbolic links under different conditions by specifying one of these values:

  • on: If any part of the requested URI is a symbolic link, access to it is denied and Nginx returns a 403 HTTP error page.
  • if_not_owner: Similar to the previous, but access is denied only if the link and the object it points to have different owners.
  • The optional parameter from= allows you to specify a part of the URL that will not be checked for symbolic links. For example, disable_symlinks on from=$document_root will ...
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ISBN: 9781788623551