Adding custom header in nginx?

0	I need to add a custom header to each response sent by nginx for my static-only application. With Apache I'd put the following in a .htaccess file: Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "" How do I do it with nginx? nginx configuration asked Jan 11 '11 at 04:56* samlue 6●2

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Custom headers are not supported by our nginx-based applications. You'll need to use an Apache-based application in order to do this.

answered Jan 11 '11 at 05:03

David L ♦♦
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I see. Is it possible, then, to create a Static/CGI/PHP app and, as its root dir, use a symlink to a dir in another application? After creating the Static/CGI/PHP application, I can't delete its directory in the shell, so replacing it with a symlink seems not possible?

(Jan 11 '11 at 05:10) samlue

Indeed it is.

We have specific applications dedicated to doing this: "Symbolic link to static-only" and "Symbolic link to Static/CGI/PHP".

In the "extra_info" field, just place the full path to the directory you'd like to use as the symlink source. The target will be the application name you choose.

(Jan 11 '11 at 05:17) David L ♦♦

Thank you, I overlooked that.

(Jan 11 '11 at 06:22) samlue

Surely you can add those specific headers, but you may end up having missing parts on a RESTful API that uses 20X status codes.

You can try to install a custom version of nginx on your application with HttpHeadersMoreModule.

In my way to use CORS on the deploy environment I pointed my API application (Rails in this case) as a subdirectory of a static application (http://my-static-app.com/api) and it worked nice. No cross-site requests there :)

answered Jul 24 '12 at 15:07

Juan Hoyos
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