Changing one’s server headers is both practical and fun. It’s a good idea to remove information that could help an attacker, and it’s also enjoyable to put interesting values in there and see who notices. There are tons of ways of doing this, based on the server you use, but here’s a way to do it with Varnish.…
Adding a Trailing Slash to Directories Using Varnish
My web configuration makes use of Varnish as a front-end, and I noticed a bug recently where asking for “/study” was failing, while asking for “/study/” would succeed. But when I moved Varnish out of the way, Nginx handled this without issue. So I set out to figure out a recipe for adding the trailing slash within Varnish.…
Varnish and Nginx
Ok, so I’m sporting Varnish and Nginx now on the site, and I’ve made a number of tweaks since yesterday. I’m no longer running Apache at all. Good riddance. I’m highly enthused about software that performs well and has simple configurations. Nginx conf files are so clean compared to those of Apache. Some things remain: Sometimes the front…