Disallow Access to .git in on the webserver

Disallow Access to .git in on the webserver

To Disallow Access to .git Place this configuration:

For apache in /etc/apache2/apache.conf

  1. <DirectoryMatch "^/.*/\.git/">
  2.   Deny from all
  3. </Directorymatch>

For Nginx in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

  1. location ~ /\.git {
  2.   return 404;
  3. }


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