Disable Direct Access to Your IP in Nginx

Often times we don't want to expose our server IP address to public. We just want to access our domain address.

If you're using Nginx like me, there's a simple workaround for this problem.

Just add another server block in your config file under /etc/nginx/site-available like this

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name YOUR_IP_ADDERSS;
    return 301 YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME;
}

It will return 301 (Moved Permanently) and redirect it to your domain address instead.

Simple isn't it? 👌