# Increase NGINX default security

**Project:** Servers | **Board:** Live | **Votes:** 2
**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/985-increase-nginx-default-security

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I noticed that the default config for NGINX on ploi has this file

/etc/nginx/sites-available/catch-all

With this line

server { return 404; }

If you change this from 404 to 444

server { return 444; }

With this, when the url assigned to the server does not exit, the server won´t return a 404 with nginx version and a lot of other information, but instead it will drop directly the connection and give 0 information to the attacker/bot, etc.
Easy change that will improve the ploi default server config.