Configuring nginx to return a 404 when a URL matches a pattern

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location ^~ /test/ {
internal;
}

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location /test/ {
return 404;
}

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Need to add "^~" to give this match a higher priority than regex location blocks.

location ^~ /test/ {
return 404;
}

Otherwise you will be in some tricky situation. For example, if you have another location block such as

location ~ \.php$ {
...
}

and someone sends a request to http://your_domain.com/test/bad.php, that regex location block will be picked by nginx to serve the request. Obviously it's not what you want. So be sure to put "^~" in that location block!

Reference: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location