Thank you, Francis.

> For each "listen" directive with a unique ip:port, add one server{}
> block which contains "listen ip:port default_server; return 444;"
This seems to do the trick.

I expected there to be a way to do all of the IP addresses at once.

Thanks for your help!


Igal


On 8/20/2015 3:16 PM, Francis Daly wrote:
> I want to disable processing of all requests that do not have a valid
> hostname
> Check your entire configuration for "listen" directives.
>
> http://nginx.org/r/listen
>
> There will be zero or more in each server{} block. If there are zero,
> that is equivalent to "listen 80" (if you run as root).
>
> For each "listen" directive with a unique ip:port, add one server{}
> block which contains "listen ip:port default_server; return 444;"
>
>> I'm tried to follow the advice on:
>> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html#how_to_prevent_undefined_server_names
>>
>> so I have (inside http directive):
>>
>> server {
>>
>> listen 80;
>> server_name "";
>> return 444;
>> }
> If your config only has "listen 80", or no "listen" directives at all, then
>
> server {
> listen 80 default_server;
> return 444;
> }
>
> should do what you want.
>
>> but I am still able to access the website by its IP address?
>>
>> what am I doing wrong?
> Not causing that server to be the default server for the ip:port you
> are connecting to.
>
> f

_______________________________________________
nginx mailing list
nginx@nginx.org
http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx