Nginx Rate Limit Introduction Nginx is a powerful web server that can be used to serve static content, load balance, and act as a reverse proxy. It is also capable of rate limiting requests to prevent abuse and protect your server from being overwhelmed. I seen various guides on how to set up rate limiting in Nginx, but I wanted to write my own since I had a specific use case in mind and I couldn’t find an example anywhere....
What happened? Backstory I was setting up a new subdomain on my VPS, I thought I had everything correctly configured but the new subdomain was being routed to another application. After an hour of troubleshooting I made the decisions to reconfigure the whole server using nginxconfig.io as a baseline. Within 15 minutes of entering all the information, downloading and extracting to my server I had everything ready to go....
What is a dork? A dork is a filter that can be applied to searches to narrow down the results to what you are looking for. This is often used to find potential documents / hidden pages that were accidentally exposed to the internet. This can be used in recon stage since it does not interact with a target / organisation directly. There are many dork operators here is a list and what effect they have on the results....
What is NGINX? NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers. source What is a WAF?...