Hide Server Info Response on NGINX

How to hide Server: Response info on NGINX

$ curl -I localhost
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 14:09:04 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 612
Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 11:46:45 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "5315bd25-264"
Accept-Ranges: bytes

To hide Server: on HTTP Response, you need install nginx-extras instead nginx/nginx-core

Install nginx-extras on Ubuntu

apt-get install nginx-extras

add these line on http {}

vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

http {
  server_tokens off;
  more_clear_headers Server;
}

Reload/restart NGINX

nginx -s reload

Test / check the result
you will see Server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu) is gone.

$ curl -I localhost
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 05:01:13 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 612
Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 11:46:45 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "5315bd25-264"
Accept-Ranges: bytes

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