How do I add Access-Control-Allow-Origin in NGINX?
Solution 1:
Nginx has to be compiled with http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpHeadersModule (default on Ubuntu and some other Linux distros). Then you can do this
location ~* \.(eot|ttf|woff|woff2)$ {
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
}
Solution 2:
A more up-to-date answer:
#
# Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
location / {
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
#
# Om nom nom cookies
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
#
# Custom headers and headers various browsers *should* be OK with but aren't
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
#
# Tell client that this pre-flight info is valid for 20 days
#
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain charset=UTF-8';
add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
return 204;
}
if ($request_method = 'POST') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
}
if ($request_method = 'GET') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,X-CustomHeader,Keep-Alive,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type';
}
}
source: https://michielkalkman.com/snippets/nginx-cors-open-configuration.html
You may also wish to add Access-Control-Expose-Headers (in the same format as Access-Control-Allow-Headers) in order to expose your custom and/or 'non-simple' headers to ajax requests.
Access-Control-Expose-Headers (optional) - The XMLHttpRequest 2 object has a
getResponseHeader() method that returns the value of a particular response
header. During a CORS request, the getResponseHeader() method can only access
simple response headers. Simple response headers are defined as follows:
Cache-Control
Content-Language
Content-Type
Expires
Last-Modified
Pragma
If you want clients to be able to access other headers, you have to use the
Access-Control-Expose-Headers header. The value of this header is a comma-
delimited list of response headers you want to expose to the client.
-http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/cors/
Configs for other web servers http://enable-cors.org/server.html
Solution 3:
Here is the article that I wrote which avoids some of the duplication for GET|POST. It should get you going with CORS in Nginx.
nginx access control allow origin
Here is the sample snippet from the post:
server {
listen 80;
server_name api.test.com;
location / {
# Simple requests
if ($request_method ~* "(GET|POST)") {
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" *;
}
# Preflighted requests
if ($request_method = OPTIONS ) {
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" *;
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Methods" "GET, POST, OPTIONS, HEAD";
add_header "Access-Control-Allow-Headers" "Authorization, Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept";
return 200;
}
....
# Handle request
....
}
}
Solution 4:
Firstly, let me say that @hellvinz answer is working for me:
location ~* \.(eot|ttf|woff|woff2)$ {
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
}
However, I have decided to answer this question with a separate answer as I only managed to get this solution working after putting in about ten more hours looking for a solution.
It seems that Nginx doesn't define any (correct) font MIME types by default. By following this tuorial I found I could add the following:
application/x-font-ttf ttc ttf;
application/x-font-otf otf;
application/font-woff woff;
application/font-woff2 woff2;
application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot;
To my etc/nginx/mime.types file. As stated, the above solution then worked.
Solution 5:
Nginx's traditional add_header directive doesn't work with 4xx responses. As we still want to add custom headers to them, we need to install the ngx_headers_more module to be able to use the more_set_headers directive, which also works with 4xx responses.
sudo apt-get install nginx-extras
Then use more_set_headers in the nginx.conf file, i have pasted my sample below
server {
listen 80;
server_name example-site.com;
root "/home/vagrant/projects/example-site/public";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin: $http_origin';
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, HEAD';
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true';
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin,Content-Type,Accept,Authorization';
location / {
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin: $http_origin';
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, HEAD';
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Max-Age: 1728000';
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true';
more_set_headers 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin,Content-Type,Accept,Authorization';
more_set_headers 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8';
more_set_headers 'Content-Length: 0';
return 204;
}
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/example-site.com-error.log error;
sendfile off;
client_max_body_size 100m;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}