bunkerized-nginx

nginx based Docker image secure by default.

Main features

• HTTPS support with transparent Let's Encrypt automation
• State-of-the-art web security : HTTP security headers, php.ini hardening, prevent leaks, ...
• Integrated ModSecurity WAF with the OWASP Core Rule Set
• Automatic ban of bad behaviors with fail2ban
• Block TOR users, bad user-agents, countries, ...
• Detect bad files with ClamAV
• Based on alpine and compiled from source
• Easy to configure with environment variables

Quickstart guide

Run HTTP server with default settings

docker run -p 80:80 -v /path/to/web/files:/www bunkerity/bunkerized-nginx

Web files are stored in the /www directory, the container will serve files from there.

Run HTTPS server with automated Let's Encrypt

docker run -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v /path/to/web/files:/www -v /where/to/save/certificates:/etc/letsencrypt -e SERVER_NAME=www.yourdomain.com -e AUTO_LETS_ENCRYPT=yes -e REDIRECT_HTTP_TO_HTTPS=yes bunkerity/bunkerized-nginx

Certificates are stored in the /etc/letsencrypt directory, you should save it on your local drive.
If you don't want your webserver to listen on HTTP add the environment variable LISTEN_HTTP with a "no" value. But Let's Encrypt needs the port 80 to be opened so redirecting the port is mandatory.

Here you have three environment variables :

• SERVER_NAME : define the FQDN of your webserver, this is mandatory for Let's Encrypt (www.yourdomain.com should point to your IP address)
• AUTO_LETS_ENCRYPT : enable automatic Let's Encrypt creation and renewal of certificates
• REDIRECT_HTTP_TO_HTTPS : enable HTTP to HTTPS redirection

Reverse proxy

You can setup a reverse proxy by adding your own custom configurations at http level.
For example, this is a dummy reverse proxy configuration :

if ($host = www.website1.com) {
	proxy_pass http://192.168.42.10
}

if ($host = www.website2.com) {
	proxy_pass http://192.168.42.11
}

All files in /http-confs inside the container will be included at http level. You can simply mount a volume where your config files are located :

docker run -p 80:80 -e SERVER_NAME="www.website1.com www.website2.com" -e SERVE_FILES=no -e DISABLE_DEFAULT_SERVER=yes -v /path/to/http/conf:/http-confs bunkerity/bunkerized-nginx

Here you have three environment variables :

• SERVER_NAME : list of valid Host headers sent by clients
• SERVE_FILES : nginx will not serve files from /www directory
• DISABLE_DEFAULT_SERVER : nginx will not respond to requests if Host header is not in the SERVER_NAME list

List of environment variables

nginx

SERVER_TOKENS
Values : on | off
Default value : off
If set to on, nginx will display server version in Server header and default error pages.

HEADER_SERVER
Values : yes | no
Default value : no
If set to no, nginx will remove the Server header in HTTP responses.

ALLOWED_METHODS
Values : allowed HTTP methods separated with | char
Default value : GET|POST|HEAD
Only the HTTP methods listed here will be accepted by nginx. If not listed, nginx will close the connection.

DISABLE_DEFAULT_SERVER
Values : yes | no
Default value : no
If set to yes, nginx will only respond to HTTP request when the Host header match a FQDN specified in the SERVER_NAME environment variable.
For example, it will close the connection if a bot access the site with direct ip.

SERVE_FILES
Values : yes | no
Default value : yes
If set to yes, nginx will serve files from /www directory within the container.
A use case to not serving files is when you setup bunkerized-nginx as a reverse proxy via a custom configuration.

MAX_CLIENT_SIZE
Values : 0 | Xm
Default value : 10m
Sets the maximum body size before nginx returns a 413 error code.
Setting to 0 means "infinite" body size.

SERVER_NAME
Values : ...
Default value : www.bunkerity.com
Sets the host names of the webserver separated with spaces. This must match the Host header sent by clients.
Useful when used with AUTO_LETSENCRYPT=yes and/or DISABLE_DEFAULT_SERVER=yes.

WRITE_ACCESS
Values : yes | no Default value : no If set to yes, nginx will be granted write access to the /www directory.
Set it to yes if your website uses file upload or creates dynamic files for example.

HTTPS

AUTO_LETS_ENCRYPT
Values : yes | no
Default value : no
If set to yes, automatic certificate generation and renewal will be setup through Let's Encrypt. This will enable HTTPS on your website for free.
You will need to redirect both 80 and 443 port to your container and also set the SERVER_NAME environment variable.

LISTEN_HTTP
Values : yes | no
Default value : yes
If set to no, nginx will not in listen on HTTP (port 80).
Useful if you only want HTTPS access to your website.

REDIRECT_HTTP_TO_HTTPS
Values : yes | no
Default value : no
If set to yes, nginx will redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS.

HTTP2
Values : yes | no
Default value : yes
If set to yes, nginx will use HTTP2 protocol when HTTPS is enabled.

ModSecurity

USE_MODSECURITY
Values : yes | no
Default value : yes
If set to yes, the ModSecurity WAF will be enabled with the OWASP Core Rule Set.

Security headers

X_FRAME_OPTIONS
Values : DENY | SAMEORIGIN | ALLOW-FROM https://www.website.net | ALLOWALL
Default value : DENY
Policy to be used when the site is displayed through iframe. Can be used to mitigate clickjacking attacks. More info here.

X_XSS_PROTECTION
Values : 0 | 1 | 1; mode=block
Default value : 1; mode=block
Policy to be used when XSS is detected by the browser. Only works with Internet Explorer.
More info here.

X_CONTENT_TYPE_OPTIONS
Values : nosniff
Default value : nosniff
Tells the browser to be strict about MIME type.
More info here.

REFERRER_POLICY
Values : no-referrer | no-referrer-when-downgrade | origin | origin-when-cross-origin | same-origin | strict-origin | strict-origin-when-cross-origin | unsafe-url
Default value : no-referrer
Policy to be used for the Referer header.
More info here.

FEATURE_POLICY
Values :
Default value : accelerometer 'none'; ambient-light-sensor 'none'; autoplay 'none'; camera 'none'; display-capture 'none'; document-domain 'none'; encrypted-media 'none'; fullscreen 'none'; geolocation 'none'; gyroscope 'none'; magnetometer 'none'; microphone 'none'; midi 'none'; payment 'none'; picture-in-picture 'none'; speaker 'none'; sync-xhr 'none'; usb 'none'; vibrate 'none'; vr 'none'
Tells the browser which features can be used on the website.
More info here.

COOKIE_FLAGS
Values : * HttpOnly | MyCookie secure SameSite | ...
Default value : * HttpOnly
Adds some security to the cookies set by the server.
Accepted value can be found here.

STRICT_TRANSPORT_POLICY
Values : max-age=expireTime [; includeSubDomains] [; preload] Default value : max-age=31536000
Tells the browser to use exclusively HTTPS instead of HTTP when communicating with the server.
More info here.

CONTENT_SECURITY_POLICY
Values : <directive 1>; <directive 2>; ... Default value : default-src 'self'; frame-ancestors 'none'; form-action 'self'; upgrade-insecure-requests; block-all-mixed-content; sandbox allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts; reflected-xss block; base-uri 'self'; referrer no-referrer
Policy to be used when loading resources (scripts, forms, frames, ...).
More info here.

Blocking

BLOCK_COUNTRY
Values : <country code 1> <country code 2> ...
Default value :
Block some countries from accessing your website. Use 2 letters country code separated with space.

BLOCK_USER_AGENT
Values : yes | no Default value : yes If set to yes, block clients with "bad" user agent.
Blacklist can be found here.

BLOCK_TOR_EXIT_NODE
Values : yes | no
Default value : no
Is set to yes, will block TOR clients.

PHP

USE_PHP
Values : yes | no
Default value : yes
If set to yes, PHP files will be executed by the server.

PHP_DISPLAY_ERRORS
Values : yes | no
Default value : no
If set to yes, PHP errors will be shown to clients.

PHP_EXPOSE
Values : yes | no
Default value : no
If set to yes, the PHP version will be sent within the X-Powered-By header.

PHP_OPEN_BASEDIR
Values :
Default value : /www/
Limits access to files within the given directory. For example include() or fopen() calls outside the directory will fail.

PHP_ALLOW_URL_FOPEN
Values : yes | no Default value : no If set to yes, allows using url in fopen() calls (i.e. : ftp://, http://, ...).

PHP_ALLOW_URL_INCLUDE
Values : yes | no Default value : no If set to yes, allows using url in include() calls (i.e. : ftp://, http://, ...).

PHP_FILE_UPLOADS
Values : yes | no Default value : yes If set to yes, allows clients to upload files.

PHP_UPLOAD_MAX_FILESIZE
Values : | XM Default value : 10M
Sets the maximum file size allowed when uploading files.

PHP_DISABLE_FUNCTIONS
Values : <function 1>, <function 2> ...
Default value : system, exec, shell_exec, passthru, phpinfo, show_source, highlight_file, popen, proc_open, fopen_with_path, dbmopen, dbase_open, putenv, chdir, mkdir, rmdir, chmod, rename, filepro, filepro_rowcount, filepro_retrieve, posix_mkfifo
List of PHP functions blacklisted. They can't be used anywhere in PHP code.

TODO

• Default CSP
• Test with default wordpress install
• Test with custom confs reverse proxy
• Documentation
• Custom TLS certificates
• HSTS preload
• Web UI