{"id":1279,"date":"2017-03-24T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T11:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pheonixsolutions.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2017-03-24T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T11:35:49","slug":"hide-webserver-informationmodify-server-header-nginx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/hide-webserver-informationmodify-server-header-nginx\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide Webserver information|Modify Server Header on Nginx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Date Posted:24\/03\/2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By default, webserver version, OS information will be visible to public which consider as a security problem because its not a good practice to expose server information. This may result in hackers to intrude your server incase if any vulnerability. So, its always good to hide all server information.<\/p>\n<h4>Assumption:<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Ubuntu or Centos Host<\/li>\n<li>Nginx Webserver<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Incase if nginx is not installed, follow the below post depends on your server environment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pheonixsolutions.com\/install-nginx-php-mariadb-ubuntu-16-04-1\/\">Install Nginx on Ubuntu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.pheonixsolutions.com\/install-nginx-php-fpm-mariadb-on-centos-7\/\">Install Nginx on\u00a0Centos 7<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Implementation:<\/h4>\n<p>We have may to install nginx-extras on ubuntu host. This post only tested with Ubuntu host. We never tried this on centos host. You can still follow this post to achieve the same.<\/p>\n<p><code>apt-get -y install nginx-extras<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Before implementing, let&#8217;s test whether the server information is exposing to the public. Open a terminal and execute the below command.<\/p>\n<p><code>curl -I\u00a0http:\/\/IPaddress<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The output will be displayed as below,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently<br \/>\nServer: nginx\/<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1.10.0 (Ubuntu)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Open the nginx.conf configuration. Under\u00a0<em>http\u00a0<\/em>section, identify and update\/add\/modify the below line<\/p>\n<p><code>vi \/etc\/nginx\/nginx.conf<\/code><\/p>\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"null\">server_tokens off; \r\nmore_set_headers 'Server: PheonixSolutions'<\/pre>\n<p>Where,<\/p>\n<p><em>server_tokens off<\/em> will hide Os Information<\/p>\n<p><em>more_set_headers <\/em>sets<em>\u00a0<\/em>user specified information.<\/p>\n<p>Verify whether any syntax error on the configuration.<\/p>\n<p><code>nginx -t<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Restart nginx service.<\/p>\n<p><code>service nginx restart<\/code><\/p>\n<h5>Verification:<\/h5>\n<p>Execute the same curl command and see whether we are getting the same information.<\/p>\n<p><code>curl http:\/\/IPaddress<\/code><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HTTP\/1.1 301 Moved Permanently<\/p>\n<p>Server: \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PheonixSolutions<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From above result, we can see OS information hided and Web Server information also modified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date Posted:24\/03\/2017 By default, webserver version, OS information will be visible to public which consider as a security problem because its not a good practice to expose server information. This may result in hackers to intrude your server incase if any vulnerability. So, its always good to hide all server&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/hide-webserver-informationmodify-server-header-nginx\/\" class=\"more-link read-more\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hide Webserver information|Modify Server Header on Nginx<\/span><i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225,298,282,220],"tags":[271,307,159],"class_list":{"0":"post-1279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-linux","7":"category-nginx","8":"category-ubuntu","9":"category-web-server","10":"tag-nginx","11":"tag-security","12":"tag-webserver","13":"h-entry","15":"h-as-article"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pheonix Solutions - We Empower Your Business Growth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/hide-webserver-informationmodify-server-header-nginx\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pheonix Solutions - We Empower Your Business Growth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Date Posted:24\/03\/2017 By default, webserver version, OS information will be visible to public which consider as a security problem because its not a good practice to expose server information. 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