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Disable Nginx Server Header

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💡 You can tell Nginx to not reveal its version number to client responses. The less information an attacker has on your system, the better.

👉🏼 Set "server_tokens" value to "off" in the main http directive.

Set server_tokens value to off in the http block to disable emitting nginx version on error pages and in the Server response header.

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