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Secure your website by adding some HTTP security headers with NGINX

In order to make your site a more secure place, it’s recommended to add some HTTP security headers into your web servers response. Without going to much into detail here, the aim of this blog post is to give you a basic NGINX configuration. For more detailed information visit Scott Helme’s blog . He did […]

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS with URL rewrite module in IIS

First download Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer 5.0. It’s a free tool that makes getting the latest components for Internet Information Services (IIS) easy. In Web Platform Installer search for ‘url rewrite’ and and install the one and only search result ‘URL Rewrite 2.0’. Restart IIS in order to make URL Rewrite module visible as shown below. […]

Redirect any subdomain http or https to a single subdomain with NGINX

Today I had a use case where I wanted to redirect any subdomain at any scheme (http or https) to a single https subdomain https://ping.flenny.net. http://blog.flenny.net should redirect to https://ping.flenny.net https://www.flenny.net should redirect to https://ping.flenny.net In order to redirect both schemes (http and https) to a single subdomain you have to setup two server blocks. […]