nginx: How To Block Exploits, SQL Injections, File Injections, Spam, User Agents, Etc.

nginx: How To Block Exploits, SQL Injections, File Injections, Spam, User Agents, Etc.

This short article explains how you can block the most common
exploits, SQL injections, file injections, spam and user agents used by
hackers and bandwidth hoggers from your nginx vhosts with some simple
configuration directives. This configuration is far from being complete,
but it’s a good starting point. You will have to watch your logs for
attempted break-in attempts and then try to modify/complete the ruleset.