Would you like to learn how to install Nginx and deny the USER-AGENT access? In this tutorial, we are going to configure the Nginx server to block access to your website based on the USER-AGENT value.
• Ubuntu 18
• Ubuntu 19
• Ubuntu 20
• Nginx 1.18.0
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Tutorial Nginx – Blocking a User-agent
Install the Nginx server.
Edit the Nginx configuration file for the default website.
Add the following line to the configuration file.
Here is the file, before our configuration.
Here is the file, after our configuration.
Restart the Nginx service.
In our example, we configured the Nginx server to deny access from user agents containing the words WGET and CURL.
From a remote computer, try to access the Nginx server using the User-agent named CURL.
Here is the command output.
Congratulations! You are able to deny access to Nginx based on the value of the User-agent.
