Explained: 7 Settings to Secure Nginx Web Server | Securing Nginx

In this video, you will learn how to secure Nginx by modifying the Nginx configuration file with these seven settings.

server_tokens off;
more_clear_headers Server;
add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'" always;
add_header X-Frame-Options "deny" always;
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
proxy_hide_header X-Runtime;
proxy_hide_header X-powered-by;

I'll also demonstrate what each option does.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:14 server_tokens off;
01:53 more_clear_headers Server;
03:22 add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'" always;
05:14 add_header X-Frame-Options "deny" always;
06:37 add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
09:26 proxy_hide_header X-Runtime;
10:55 proxy_hide_header X-powered-by;
11:50 Outro

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[Hiturion]

Hi. Great video thanks. Would also add an 8th one by making sure the Strict-Transport-Security is enforced ;).

[dancewitharun]

Good content bro in a single video. Keep uploading like this. Thanks

[sempaidesu]

great content bro. now i can just copy your video url and share it to my developer instead explain it to them everytime

[johanstam]

How to secure Cookies for sites on a Nginx server? There was a Nginx module, but that one is deprecated.

[LryuzakiLN]

Hi, could you please do a video on caching images on nginx, like for example, all my images are in
/var/something directory, how do I cache these images? And serve from nginx

Thanks if you can do this!

[isbelmont]

I want to secure nginx web server on fedora os, this video is not for me

[AlejandroLopez-nfqe]

add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'" always; broke my website. It looks as if the CSS is gone.