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nginx-1.1.17, nginx-1.0.14
author | Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> |
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date | Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:16:12 +0000 |
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<!DOCTYPE article SYSTEM "../../../dtd/article.dtd"> <article name="I am trying to open Facebook and instead I am getting “Welcome to nginx!” page" link="/en/docs/welcome_nginx_facebook.html" lang="en"> <section> <para> <initial>Q:</initial> I am trying to open Facebook, Yahoo!, Google, or some other well-known web site and instead I am getting a blank web page with a message referring to nginx: “Welcome to nginx!” or “404 Not Found / nginx”. </para> <para> I suspect something is wrong and there is probably a malicious attempt here to direct me to a rogue web page (for hacking my computer, phishing etc.). Why is that and what has nginx to do with my attempts to connect to Facebook (Yahoo!, Google, etc.) ? </para> <para> </para> <para> <initial>A:</initial> nginx is among the 3 most popular web servers in the world. It is a free open source server software which is absolutely legitimate and has nothing to do with any kind of threatening or malicious activity per se. A web page saying “Welcome to nginx!” is one of the diagnostics responses that can be produced by an Internet server running nginx. </para> <para> However, you are right in your assumption that something must be wrong with your computer or browser, or operating system setup when you are trying to access a well known web site and instead of a familiar page you get “Welcome to nginx!”. This should not happen if your computer is clean and safe. </para> <para> We recommend you to check and verify your entire system setup (possibly with the help of your ISP or another support personnel), and it would also be a good idea to install and run an anti-virus software on your computer. It may happen that some malign entity is trying to divert the traffic from your computer to a different server and potentially cause significant harm to you and the other users on the Internet. </para> </section> </article>