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How to hide PHP 5/7 version when using Nginx

last updated June 24, 2019 in Alpine Linux, CentOS, Debian / Ubuntu, Linux, PHP, RedHat and Friends, Security, Security Through Obscurity, UNIX

I am using PHP 5.6.xx and Nginx server on an Apline Linux server. I want to hide ‘X-Powered-By: PHP/5.6.32’ or ‘x-powered-by: PHP/7.3.6’ HTTP header. How can I hide PHP version when using Nginx along with PHP-fpm5 or PHP-fpm7?