How to disable server and server tokens header parameters on nginx

Question

I have a ubuntu server which has nginx 1.12.0 installed and i want to completely remove the server Response header

Server:nginx

If i install nginx-extras it will install the nginx/1.1.19 version and it will also disable the Etags,Are there any other options to remove the server header

This is utterly harmless. There is little point to removing it. — Michael Hampton, Mar 12 '18 at 16:06
Duplicate: https://serverfault.com/questions/214242/can-i-hide-all-server-os-info — Darryl E. Clarke, Mar 12 '18 at 17:43

Joenel de Asis · Answer 1 · 2018-03-12T16:05:29.910

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Add this server_tokens off; on your nginx.conf under server section.

This will remove the Server: nginx 1.12.0 server header

Update:

You need to compile it from source. Here's the link I got from DO.

Download the nginx package then follow this steps:

cd ~/src/nginx/
vi +49 src/http/ngx_http_header_filter_module.c

Find the lines:

static char ngx_http_server_string[] = "Server: nginx" CRLF;
static char ngx_http_server_full_string[] = "Server: " NGINX_VER CRLF;

Modify to:

static char ngx_http_server_string[] = "Server: custom-server-name" CRLF;
static char ngx_http_server_full_string[] = "Server: custom-server-name" CRLF;

This

edited Mar 12 '18 at 16:05

answered Mar 12 '18 at 15:24

Joenel de Asis

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That will remove the server version but it will still print Server: nginx but my requirement is to completely remove server header – Sam Hams Mar 12 '18 at 15:33
I will just edit my answer above on how you can fix it. – Joenel de Asis Mar 12 '18 at 15:59

How to disable server and server tokens header parameters on nginx

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