get nginx version remote

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 21 Dez 2011 08h49 WET, iafilius at xs4all.nl wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we use nginx as reverse proxy for some websites, and we'd like to
> get the nginx version for administration purposes.
>
> Is there as way to get nginx's version remote, for example like the
> same way as the HttpStubStatusModule (restricted url/access) ?

map $remote_addr $can_have_version {
    default 0;
    192.168.96.0/24 1; # put your allowed IP list here
}


location /nginx-version {
    if ($can_have_version) {
        return 200 "nginx version: $nginx_version\n"; 
    }     
    return 403;
}

This is one way another would be using a key with an arg like this:

location /nginx-version {
    if ($arg_k = mychosenkey) {
        return 200 "nginx version: $nginx_version\n"; 
    }     
    return 403;
}

You would request the version with:

http://myhost.com/nginx-version?k=mychosenkey

Just two examples, plenty of other possible ways to go about it.

--- appa