The ngx_http_static_delete module is used to delete a file in nginx's document root.

location ~ /DELETE/(.*) {
    allow           192.168.100.101;
    deny            all;
    root            /usr/local/nginx/html;
    static_delete   /$1;
}

• syntax: static_delete $value
• default: --
• context: location

The value is the relative path of the static file to be deleted. It is possible to use a text, variables and their combination. It would be mapped to root directory to construct a absolute path, then try to delete it. When deleted successfully, the response for the connection is 200. When '../' and './' in the path of file to be deleted, and '/' is the last character, the response would be 405. Otherwise, 404 returned.