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Completely hide server name apache

1 min readApr 18, 2024

I have added these 2 lines in my etc/apache2.conf file, and it hid the OS and apache version.

ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod

But after all I can see the header with server name

Server  Apache

How to hide this information as well ? I am using Debian 7, apache v 2.2

Thanks

Solution

Apache on its own cannot completely unset the Server header (not even with mod_headers).

This appears to be by design, as discussed by the Apache devs.

There is a way to do this using ModSecurity, but I know little about that. Instead, these people have it all figured out already:

I can verify that this works, just tried on Debian 7.6.

edit: install mod security for apache and then add this in your apache2.conf.

<IfModule security2_module>
SecRuleEngine on
ServerTokens Full
SecServerSignature " "
</IfModule>

After this restarting the apache, Server header will disappear

Answered By — Ramón

Answer Checked By — David Marino (FixIt Volunteer)

This Answer collected from stackoverflow, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5 , cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0

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