nginx deny access to .log file extension

Question

how to prevent nginx from accessing .log file extension , I have this nginx config

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location ~* (\.ini|\.log|\.conf)$ {
     deny all;
     error_page 403 =404 / ;
 }

but above code is not working anyways? I'm not good enough in pcre regex handling.

Answer 1

Worked for me.

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location ~\.(ini|log|conf)$ {
     deny all;
     error_page 403 =404 / ;
 }