Quickly change nginx configs

published Feb 08, 2011

Shell script to change nginx configs to ignore logins and cookies.

See these pages for info on why you may want this: http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/cve-2011-0720 and http://plone.org/documentation/kb/disable-logins-for-a-plone-site

If you want to change lots of nginx config files to temporarily switch off login (authentication) and cookies, you can use this bash script at your own risk:

#! /bin/bash
# Note: /bin/sh would be better, but at least when that points to
# /bin/dash it complains about some of my usage of 'test'.

cat < $CONFFILE
            fi
        fi
    fi
done

echo "Do not forget to reload or restart nginx after changes."

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