Nginx Deny From IP

Nginx is a very unique Web Server, today I will show how to deny IP using Nginx, Please note you must have this module installed in your Nginx web server , If you don't have it installed - Simply download my pre-compile Nginx which comes with all the necessary modules known to NGINX.

ngx_http_access_module

Will create a file under our conf directory lets called that block.conf, My conf directory is located at /etc/nginx/conf.d/. We are going to assume YOUR IP Address i.e. 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4

nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/block.conf

deny 9.9.9.9;
deny 8.8.8.8;
deny 8.8.4.4;

Once done restart your Nginx server

service nginx restart OR
service nginx reload

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