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Azure Virtual Machine Modify default with sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default. Under server tag add the security headers: ... Save ( Control + o ) and then Enter and close ( Control + x ) Restart nginx with sudo service nginx restart and test the configuration with sudo nginx -t for any typo or issue.

When a client requests a web page, the HTTP header includes the user agent, referer, and x-forwarded-for fields as attribute-value pairs and forwards them to the web server. When enabled for logging HTTP headers, the firewall logs the following attribute-value pairs in the URL Filtering logs.

#Configure the log headers in Nginx log_format combined '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent"'; You can then use the "access_log" directive to specify which log format to use and where to save the log entries.

#Configure the log headers in Nginx log_format combined '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent"'; You can then use the "access_log" directive to specify which log format to use and where to save the log entries.

The HTTP headers in NGINX are split in two parts: the input request headers (headers_in structure) and the output request headers (headers_out structure). There is no such an entity as a response, all the data is stored in the same single request structure.

By default, the access log is located at /var/log/nginx/access. log , and the information is written to the log in the predefined combined format. You can override the default settings and change the format of logged messages by editing the NGINX configuration file ( /etc/nginx/nginx.

Log headers are plotted at the top of a log and typically contain textual information (company name, date, etc.), column labels, company logos, etc. Some of the header text is static or unchanging, while some (such as a date) change from log to log.