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vamsi · #1 (**permalink**) 19th November 2009, 01:12 AM

Hi all..I am using nginx for my personal wordpress blog..I wanted to know how to restrict a file type in it..
in other words , I just want to allow image files (jpg,png,gif) in wp-uploads folder for security purposes..
please guide me

thanks
vamsi

jaysunn · #2 (**permalink**) 19th November 2009, 05:34 AM

This may be of assistance to you. I have used it once before:

Secure File Upload Check List With PHP - Hungred Dot Com

Have a look:

HTH,

Jaysunn

vamsi · #3 (**permalink**) 19th November 2009, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaysunn

This may be of assistance to you. I have used it once before:

Secure File Upload Check List With PHP - Hungred Dot Com

Have a look:

HTH,

Jaysunn

Thank you..
is there any other way ?
I had used .htaccess to restrict a file type in apache ..but I dont know how to get this in done in nginx

nixcraft · #4 (**permalink**) 19th November 2009, 11:04 AM

Take a look at location directive. It can be used to match given regex and take some action. For example, following be used to block hotlinking:

Code:

  
location ~* (\.jpg|\.png|\.gif)$ {
    valid_referers blocked theos.in www.theos.in;
    if ($invalid_referer) ) {
        return 444;
    }
  }

Only allow images

Code:

      location /path/to/your/wp-uploads {
        if ($request_uri ~* (^\/|\.jpg|\.png|\.gif)$ ) {
          break;
        }
        return 444;
      }

NginxHttpCoreModule

vamsi · #5 (**permalink**) 19th November 2009, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nixcraft

Take a look at location directive. It can be used to match given regex and take some action. For example, following be used to block hotlinking:

Code:

  
location ~* (\.jpg|\.png|\.gif)$ {
    valid_referers blocked theos.in www.theos.in;
    if ($invalid_referer) ) {
        return 444;
    }
  }

Only allow images

Code:

      location /path/to/your/wp-uploads {
        if ($request_uri ~* (^\/|\.jpg|\.png|\.gif)$ ) {
          break;
        }
        return 444;
      }

NginxHttpCoreModule

it works like charm

thanks

raj · #6 (**permalink**) 20th November 2009, 12:44 AM

how fast is nginx? some one said lighttpd is very fast, thoughts?

I think only large size website need nginx or lighttpd server. Most small site are okay with apache. At least most of our customer run apache.

vamsi · #7 (**permalink**) 20th November 2009, 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raj

how fast is nginx? some one said lighttpd is very fast, thoughts?

I think only large size website need nginx or lighttpd server. Most small site are okay with apache. At least most of our customer run apache.

My site is on a 128 mb ram vps

so I try all the ways to reduce the ram usage and one of the way I adopted is nginx . I was not able to find any noticeable speed changes on my blog.. also many say that nginx is best for serving static content..and I am just experimenting all types of servers just foe fun

will try lighty after my test in college

yog · #8 (**permalink**) 4th December 2009, 07:03 PM

Hello Guys,

I want to know more about lsof command, however I have basic info of that command which is not sufficient to trace out many things. As lsof is great tool.

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