Modifications to nginx configuration files

conf/nginx-custom.conf

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+	# Expose this directory as static files.
+	root $ROOT;
+	index index.html index.htm;
+
+	# ADDITIONAL DIRECTIVES HERE
+
+	# Disable viewing dotfiles (.htaccess, .svn, .git, etc.)
+	# This block is placed at the end. Nginx's precedence rules means this block
+	# takes precedence over all non-regex matches and only regex matches that
+	# come after it (i.e. none of those, since this is the last one.) That means
+	# we're blocking dotfiles in the static hosted sites but not the FastCGI-
+	# handled locations for Nextcloud (which serves user-uploaded files that might
+	# have this pattern, see #414) or some of the other services.
+	location ~ /\.(ht|svn|git|hg|bzr) {
+		log_not_found off;
+		access_log off;
+		deny all;
+	}