Limit connection to specific location

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 17:12:11 Jaap van Arragon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'am looking for a way to limit the number of connection in one hour to a
> location named /api/
> 
> I've looked at the ngx_http_limit_conn_module module but I don't understand
> how to limit the amount of connection from a specific ip address per hour.
> 
> For example: ip address 33.33.33.33 can only make 20 connections in one
> hour to the url /api/
> 
> We use nginx as a loadbalancer/proxy.
> 
> Does somebody has a example for this?
> 

You can try to use the limit_req module: 
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_req_module.html

But the minimum limit you can currently set is 1 request per minute.

  wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

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