Nginx-Hardened-Mode

Hardened Mode for Nginx

• Nginx-Hardened-Mode
  • Features
    • 1. Drop Requests for Unknown Server Name
    • 2. Drop Requests from Untrusted Source Address
    • 3. Get Latest IPs List of Trusted Service Automatically
    • 4. Immediately Error Reporting
  • Distribution of Nginx-Hardened-Mode
  • Roadmap
  • Known Issues
  • Contact Us

Features

1. Drop Requests for Unknown Server Name

• If a request ask for server name out of trusted list, it'll be drop immediately.

2. Drop Requests from Untrusted Source Address

• If a request comes from an address out of trusted list, it'll be drop immediately.

3. Get Latest IPs List of Trusted Service Automatically

• Make it easier to deal with IPs lists provided by numerous well-known services which changed frequently.
  Currently supported: CloudFlare, Fastly.

4. Immediately Error Reporting

• Auto reporting while failed over to Normal Mode (Behavior of Original Nginx) by WebHook.

Distribution of Nginx-Hardened-Mode

• v1.0-*
  • Instruction for v1.0-L3-CDN
  • Instruction for v1.0-L7-Host

Roadmap

• ✅ Server name validation
• ✅ Source IP address validation
• ✅ IP List of CDN (ex: cloudflare, fastly...etc)
• 🚀 IP List of Public Cloud (ex: gcp, azure, aws, akamai... etc)
• 🚀🚀 Secret Sauce :)

Known Issues

• Commands nginx -s reload and nginx -s stop might fail in certain conditions. If encounter such error, you might have to kill nginx processes manually.

Contact Us

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