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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

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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

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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, 2018 at 15:33
  • I will just edit my answer above on how you can fix it.
    – Joenel de Asis
    Mar 12, 2018 at 15:59
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You have to have commercial subscription to nginx in order to remove nginx from your response body using server tokens 'string'

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