Protection fails on nginx and proxy hosts
Protection does not apply on nginx, reverse-proxy or staging hosts, and the setup steps for those servers are unclear.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 11 February 2025 · last reported 12 March 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners on nginx servers, managed staging environments and subdomains report that protection rules do not take effect even after pasting the suggested configuration and restarting the service.
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