Introduction Bots are an increasing threat to websites, whether through fake sign ups, brute force login attempts, content scraping, or resource abuse. If you are running applications on Coolify , an open source platform as a service alternative, you need a simple and efficient way to protect them without unnecessary complexity. This is where Anubis comes in. In this guide, you will learn: What…
Nginx Rate Limit Introduction Nginx is a powerful web server that can be used to serve static content, load balance, and act as a reverse proxy. It is also capable of rate limiting requests to prevent abuse and protect your server from being overwhelmed. I seen various guides on how to set up rate limiting in Nginx, but I wanted to write my own since I had a specific use case in mind and I…
What happened? Backstory I was setting up a new subdomain on my VPS, I thought I had everything correctly configured but the new subdomain was being routed to another application. After an hour of troubleshooting I made the decisions to reconfigure the whole server using nginxconfig.io as a baseline. Within 15 minutes of entering all the information, downloading and extracting to my server I had…
What is a dork? A dork is a filter that can be applied to searches to narrow down the results to what you are looking for. This is often used to find potential documents / hidden pages that were accidentally exposed to the internet. This can be used in recon stage since it does not interact with a target / organisation directly. There are many dork operators here is a list and what effect they…
What is NGINX? NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, NGINX can also function as a proxy server for email (IMAP, POP3, and SMTP) and a reverse proxy and load balancer for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers.…