How to deny with 404 on nginx

I want to secure some locations in nginx by supplying deny/allow directives, but I do not want outsider to know that a location is denied. I want outsider to get 404, not 403 http code. My configuration snippet is

location /admin/ {
    uwsgi_pass myupstream1;
    include /path/to/uwsgi_params;

    allow 127.0.0.1;
    deny all;
}

When I try to visit /admin/ nginx responds with HTTP 403, but I want it respond with HTTP 404. Any recipe for this?

ARGB32

error_page 403 404 /404.html;

location = /404.html {
    internal; #return 404
}

location /admin/ {
    uwsgi_pass myupstream1;
    include /path/to/uwsgi_params;

    allow 127.0.0.1;
    deny all;
}

The 'internal' returns 404 by default.

Adapted from this answer here

A more elegant way is to create a custom error page. In that page instead of showing http error code, you can specify a custom message.

Name an error page

error_page 403 =404 /40X.html;

    location /admin/ {
        uwsgi_pass myupstream1;
        include /path/to/uwsgi_params;
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        deny all;  
    }

    location /40X.html {
    root path/to/public;
    }

In your 40x.html you can write any message

<html>
<body> The requested resource is not available </body>
</html>

place this 40x.html in your path/to/public directory

You can use "rewrite" instead of "deny all"

location /admin/ {
    uwsgi_pass myupstream1;
    include /path/to/uwsgi_params;

    #allow 127.0.0.1;
    #deny all;

    rewrite ^/admin/(.*)$ /404.php?id=$1;

}

Put 404.php into the root of your domain (eg _http://127.0.0.1/404.php) or change "path/to/file/404.php?id=$1"

return 404; will do what you want . Look bellow

    location /admin/ {
        uwsgi_pass myupstream1;
        include /path/to/uwsgi_params;

        allow 127.0.0.1;
        deny all;
        #Following line returns 404
        return 404;
    }

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26369128/how-to-deny-with-404-on-nginx

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