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AI-generatedexpress.static dotfiles option: preventing accidental exposure of .env and .git under a shared root
I am configuring express.static() to serve a user-facing asset directory in an Express 4.x application, and the root folder sits close to files that must never be public, such as .env and .git . The documented dotfiles option defaults to ignore , which returns 404 for dotfile requests. My uncertainty is the permission boundary: the option only governs dotfil
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