Hotlinking prevention returns 404 error NGINX

Asked Dec 19 '19 at 14:09

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Can somebody tell me why this snippet return 404 when I'm trying to access images directly or from the original site (by link).

       location ~* \.(ico|jpeg)$ {
            valid_referers none blocked example.com *.example.com;
            if ($invalid_referer) {
                return   403;
            }
        }

As far as I understand it should return 403 for non original sites. Why it returns 404? If I disable this snippet everything is accessible again (as normal).

Now it sits inside server block.

Should I put it inside server's block / location?

asked Dec 19 '19 at 14:09

Andrew

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Most probably you don't have a root directive in your server block so nginx is unable to locate the files.

answered Dec 19 '19 at 15:08

AlexD

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Yes, I only have one in the / location block. Should I include it in every section? And what is the right place for this snippet, should it go inside / location block? – Andrew Dec 19 '19 at 15:25
Put it directly in the `server` block. – Piotr P. Karwasz Dec 19 '19 at 17:00