# Question access control

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-access-control/205459>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [April 7, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-access-control/205459 "2011-04-07T01:55:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-access-control/205459/1 "2011-04-07T01:55:42Z")

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Hello,  
I am trying to use access control to limit access from limited IP range.

I test 127.0.0.1 first, with config

```
  server {
      listen 80;
      server_name localhost;

      location / {

          deny all;

       }
   }

```

However, when I test in browser with 127.0.0.1, I can still see  
index.html page.

Did I do something wrong?

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**Author:** ![yanxin\_z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/d6d6ee/32.png) [@yanxin\_z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yanxin_z)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-access-control/205459/2 "2011-04-07T03:08:56Z")

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Hello!

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 01:55:42AM +0200, Yanxin Z. wrote:

> ```
> deny all;
> 
> }
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> However, when I test in browser with 127.0.0.1, I can still see  
> index.html page.
> 
> Did I do something wrong?

Sure.

It’s up to you to find out what exactly, possible causes include:

1. You are testing your browser cache, not nginx.

2. You’ve failed to configure virtual hosts properly and testing  
wrong virtual host.

3. You’ve forgot to reload configuration and/or it wasn’t reloaded  
due to errors in config.

Maxim D.

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**Author:** ![yanxin\_z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/d6d6ee/32.png) [@yanxin\_z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/yanxin_z)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/question-access-control/205459/3 "2011-04-07T03:16:23Z")

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Hi Maxim,  
Thank you!  
I find out the browser cache causes the problem.  
Yanxin