Prevent direct access

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  emlllc · Member · Jan 30, 2024 at 7:33 pm

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  I am trying to install Prevent Direct Access. I need people to be unable to access pages on my website other than the homepage directly. PDA gives me this message after installation:

  “PDA REWRITE RULES

  It looks like you’re using NGINX web server. NGINX doesn’t have .htaccess-type capability, Prevent Direct Access Free cannot modify your server configuration automatically for you. Here’s how you can do it manually:

  Update our rewrite rules on your NGINX server as per this instruction:

  rewrite wp-content/uploads/pda(/[A-Za-z0-9@./&+-]+)+.([A-Za-z0-9_@./&+-]+)$ “/index.php?pda_v3_pf=$1&is_direct_access=true&file_type=$2” last;
  rewrite private/([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+)$ “/index.php?pda_v3_pf=$1″ last;”

  I tried to follow the instructions “Find your website’s Nginx config file which is often located at /etc/nginx/site-available or /etc/nginx/conf/site-available (if you’re using Arch Linux)” except I cannot find how to do that.

  Is there a better way of preventing direct access to pages via their URL or is this the best? How do I accomplish this? This is my last task before launching. Please help.

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  staff-dragon · Staff · Feb 1, 2024 at 12:32 am

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  Hey there,

  It looks like you already posted this question here. I have responded to your initial post and will close this one as a duplicate.

  Thanks!