7G Firewall for Nginx

After several months of development, the official Nginx version of the 7G Firewall is out of beta and ready for public use. If you are not familiar with 7G Firewall, check out the documentation for the Apache/.htaccess version. The Nginx version of the 7G Firewall works the exact same way, so I won’t bother repeating everything here. The only difference is the implementation, how to set it up on an Nginx server, which is explained in this post.

In order to implement the Nginx version of 7G Firewall, you need to be familiar with Nginx and its various configuration files. That is to say, this is not a tutorial on setting up or configuring Nginx in general. Rather it assumes that you already have Nginx up and running, and want to add the 7G Firewall.

There are two parts to Nginx 7G: conditional logic and firewall rules. Each of these parts will be placed in their own file. Then each file needs included via your Nginx configuration. Here is a visual of the basic directory structure:

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