====== Ubuntu - nginx - Hide web server version from appearing in http header ======

Add this line into **/etc/nginx/nginx.conf**:

<file bash /etc/nginx/nginx.conf>
...
server_tokens off
...
</file>

where this line of config will hide your nginx version number.  

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===== Restart or reload nginx =====

<code bash>
/etc/init.t/nginx restart
</code>

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===== Check the nginx header =====

To check for the header, you can use curl:

<code bash>
curl -I www.foo.net
</code>

where -I is for curl to grab just the http header.

returns:

<code bash>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat)
</code>