Block PHP Files Nginx

Ok found the answer. You need to put this directive above the location:

location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }

The order apparently matters inside the nging conf file.

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