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Don't Accidentally Serve Dotfiles With Nginx

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💡 When serving your frontend app directly through Nginx, make sure to not accidentally expose any dotfiles.

👉🏼 Add a location directive to your server configuration to block access to all hidden files.

Add deny all inside a location block matching ~ /\.(?!well-known) paths to not serve dotfiles in your project.

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