Issue how can restrict all but some access to a part of a website

[elaa]

I am trying to deny access from except my ip address for a part of a site, so I did this:
Domains > example.com > Apache & nginx Settings.
in the Additional nginx directives section I added this code and my ip address

location ^~ /ctst {
allow 203.0.113.2;
deny all;
}

but I got
403 Forbidden

am I doing something wrong if so then what is it ?

 

[elaa]

I need to deny access to a part of website and allow some IP Addresses to access it for example my site is emample.com it is accessible by every one but emample.com/test and all its files are accessible only for 123.123.123.123 , so I tried this code in PLESK

Domains > example.com >Apache & nginx Settings. In the Additional nginx directives section I added this code and my ip address

location ^~ /test {
allow 203.0.113.2;
deny all;
}

this worked for emample.com/test but for emample.com/test/file.php it did not work the files are accessible, and they are being downloaded instead of being executed, I googled for solution but I did not find anything so what should I add to fix this and to deny access to all the content of /test

 

[briveira]

same thing here; in latest version of Plesk Obsydian in Linux

following plesk's instructions: https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/...-directory-from-specific-IP-address-in-Plesk-

edited a month ago!

it not only does NOT work (logs show it gets denied for my IP by NGINX) but all files under the protected folder, being PHPs, are directly downloaded (not proceesed by apache/fpm-php