Nginx – Remove Welcome to Nginx Page for Reverse Proxy

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I am using nginx on Ubuntu 18 for a reverse proxy and HTTPS tunnel to those localhost services. Here's my site config:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name my.domain.com;
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
    server_name my.domain.com;

    # add Strict-Transport-Security to prevent man in the middle attacks
    add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always;

    location /service1 {
        proxy_pass http://localhost:8989;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    }

    access_log /var/log/nginx/my.domain.com;

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    # Other certbot stuff for signed HTTPS certificate
}

Basically when I go to https://my.domain.com, I don't want anything to show. I want it to be an error, as if the page doesn't exist. Right now it shows me "Welcome to nginx!". I have Googled ways of getting rid of it but I have had no luck. I completely disabled default under /etc/nginx/sites-enabled.

I only want nginx to serve https://my.domain.com/service1 and redirect HTTP to HTTPS, but I do not want any welcome pages to be served.

Best Answer

Something like this should work, near the existing location blocks.

// New part starts
location / {
     return 418;
}
// New part ends

location /service1 {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:8989;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}
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