How to hide the server version?

[Jay Reitz]

Use:
server_tokens off;

From:
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpHeadersModule

I believe this setting was added in version 0.5.34.

>j.

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Thomas Seifert <thomas-lists at mysnip.de>
wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> is there any directive to hide the exact server version in the header and
> error pages?
> I don't mind showing that I'm running nginx but I don't want to give out
> the exact version it is.
> It could give attackers additional information if the update is lacking a
> version or something like that.
>
> I know, security by obscurity isn't working well but at least its a
> stumbling block.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> thomas
>
>
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