Thread: nginx Block Images in wp-uploads

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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