A fun and easy one for Nginx is to simply redirect all requests by default. I stick this in my default vhost after the healthcheck and error page parts :)

A fun and easy one for Nginx is to simply redirect all requests by default. I stick this in my default vhost after the healthcheck and error page parts :) location / { return 301 http://$remote_addr$request_uri; access_log /var/log/nginx/spam.log; } This also helps to separate the useless garbage requests from the real ones to keep the logs clean. 99% of the time scanners are hitting your IP rather than your hostname, so it's pretty safe to just ignore their requests entirely.