nginx "deny all" location not working when clicking href-element

realzeusey

10/19/23, 9:58 AM

I'm trying to deny acess to the root url of a proxied web application. Only the path /images is supposed to be accessible from the internet.

My nginx configuration for the page looks like this:

...
server {
        location / {
                deny all;
        }
        location /images {
                proxy_pass https://xyz.abc/images;

}
...

However, if i click a button with href="/" on the /images page, i can access the /-site. When i refresh this page now, i get a 403 error. But this only happens after the refresh, not when first clicking the href="/" button.

Thank you!

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drookie

10/19/23, 10:22 AM

Try with browser cache disabled.

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realzeusey

10/19/23, 10:29 AM

Thank you @drookie, disabling browser cache solved the problem. I tried on another computer and it worked!

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