How to remove the header X-Powered-By for all websites hosted in Plesk?

[Suhitha]

Applicable to:

• Plesk for Linux
• Plesk for Windows

Question

How to remove the header X-Powered-By for all websites hosted in Plesk for Linux?

# curl -I https://example.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PleskLin


Answer

1.Log in to Plesk.

2.Install the extension Panel.ini editor to manage Plesk settings.

3.Go to Extensions > My Extensions > Panel.ini Editor (Open button) > switch to the Editor tab.

4.Add the following lines at the end of the file:

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[webserver]
xPoweredByHeader = off
5.Click Save.

6.Go to Tools & Settings > Diagnose & Repair and click repair for Web & FTP Servers to rebuild web-server configuration.



                                        Command-line solution

1.Connect to the Plesk server via SSH (Linux) / RDP (Windows Server).

2.Open panel.ini file with the command (on Windows Server, use a command prompt):

# plesk conf panel.ini

3.Add the lines below at the bottom of the file:

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[webserver]
xPoweredByHeader = off
4.Save changes and close the file.

5.Recreate web-server configuration for domains:

# plesk repair web -domains-only