Site should not be accessed through IP

Server NGINX
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Hi Guys,

I have my nginx box deployed as a reverse proxy serving almost more than
10
sites. But when I browse through 1 IP the first site configured gets
accessed. I dont want anyone to access the sites through IP, by using
only
FQDN sites should be accesible.

So anyone trying to access the site using IP should recieve a host not
found
or may be error like COnnection reset.

Can we do that in nginx?

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2

configure a site first, which does the default handling and has no
content?

Cheers,
Sebastian

Am 09.04.2015 um 20:09 schrieb blason [email protected]:

Can we do that in nginx?

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You could use an extra host config with a default_server, like so:

server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name _;
return 444;
}

You can find this example on
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/server_names.html

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4

Hi Finalx,

you mean shall I create the .conf file by name default_server and add up
this there? Or would you please tell me where shoudl I add the above
stanza?
Sorry I am being novice in nginx just would like to know more
information
about this.

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5

If you’re using a 1-config-per-site setup, then yes, you could. It
completely depends on your setup as to where you need to place it.

You can put it in any existing file that already has a server directive
in
there. Just make sure none of the other server configs/files have the
default_server in their listen directive.

The server name of _ just makes sure it won’t conflict with any existing
name as hostnames are not allowed to have underscores in them.

The default_server is special, it makes sure that any request that does
not
have a matching name in the rest of the config will end up there. So not
just the IP that you asked for, but also any other website name that is
not
in the config.

The 444 status code is just to return a “no response” kinda thing. If
you
want you can even have a default site there, telling users there is no
site
at that address with a fancy text and/or logo instead.