Blocking direct file access on nginx server

Hi there.

I followed the instructions that the plugin provided by placing the following code in the nginx config:

location /downloads/dlm_uploads {
deny all;
return 403;
}

Please note that I have changed the default WP uploads directory to be in the “downloads” folder in the root of my server.

After adding the code, I’m still able to directly access a PDF file that was uploaded with DLM.

Any idea what could be wrong?

• This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Heronymo.