zEitEr
Super Moderator
Nginx still proxies requests to apache for static files. That's the way it's design by Directadmin so all mod_rewrite rules and restrictions from .htaccess could be applied for static files. To avoid it you need to update nginx templates.
Related: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=558
Related: http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=558