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Designed to help you get started with EdgeRules, our recipes provide you with predefined rules for the most common cases.
Manipulate headers, reduce the number of calls made to your origin server, create custom redirects, and more.
Create a better user experience by providing separate caches for mobile and non-mobile devices.
You can create 100% custom Edgerules or use and modify other elements shown here. Explore following options laid out in a simple, user friendly format:
Match type: e.g. Exact, Literal (and many more)
Match location: The URI
Match location case sensitive: yes or no
Directive: e.g. Status code, Ignore query string, Deny (many more plus custom directives)
Directive value
Optional conditional: $variable and Relational operator (and value)
Multiple sets of directives and conditionals (points 4-6)
Rule priority
Purge cache: yes or no
Realtime activation or save and finish later
Some applications add this header to all HTTP responses and it often contains the application name and version which can be a security risk. This recipe allows you to hide it.
Match Type Default
Features HIDE HEADER X-Powered-By
Amazon S3 by default adds lots of useless to the user HTTP headers. You can remove them to minimize the transferred data.
Match Type Default
Features HIDE HEADER x-amz-id-2
HIDE HEADER x-amz-meta-s3fox-filesize
HIDE HEADER x-amz-meta-s3fox-modifiedtime
HIDE HEADER x-amz-request-id
X-XSS-Protection is an HTTP header understood by Internet Explorer 8 (and newer versions). This header lets domains toggle on and off the “XSS Filter” of IE8, which prevents some categories of XSS attacks.
Match Type Default
Features ADD HEADER X-XSS-Protection “1; mode=block”
This will allow the customer to block certain Countries. In this example, we will return a 403 when a visitor is coming from China (CN).
Match Type Default
Features if ( $geoip_city_country_code = CN ) {
STATUS CODE 403 }
To improve your SEO scores you can redirect all bots that hit the CDN to your origin.
Match Type Exact
Features if ( $http_user_agent ~*
~(crawl|Googlebot|Slurp|spider|
bingbot|tracker|click|parser|spider) ) {
REWRITE RULE ^ https://static.origin.com$request_uri permanent
}
Specify a X-Pull request header key to have the possibility to restrict access to your origin server (X-Pull: [key])
Match Type Default
Features if ($http_x_pull ~* “Your_secret_key”) {
return 405;}
Caching will be disabled for index file .m3u8
Match Type Regex
Features if (Location .m3u8 ) {
BYPASS CACHE 1
}
You can use this recipe to disallow bots to index different parts of your website. A flexible alternative to robots.txt file.
Match Type Regex
Location .(?:pdf|htm?l|png|jpe?g|gif)$
Features ADD HEADER X-Robots-Tag “noindex”
ADD HEADER X-Robots-Tag “googlebot: nofollow”
This header can be used to indicate whether or not a browser should be allowed to render a page in a <frame> or <iframe>
Match Type Default
Features ADD HEADER X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN
ADD HEADER X-Frame-Options DENY
ADD HEADER X-Frame-Options “ALLOW-FROM $uri”
Cross-Origin resource sharing allows other websites to request content from your domain using JavaScript or CSS. Required for web fonts to work.
Match Type Regex
Location .(ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|font.css|css)$
Features ADD HEADER Access-Control-Allow-Origin “*”
This recipe allows you to hide the Server header from all HTTP responses.
Match Type Default
Features HIDE HEADER Server
Forces the use of HTTPS connections. All HTTP requests will be redirected to HTTPS.
Match Type Default
Features if ( $scheme = http ) {
REWRITE RULE ^ https://$http_host$request_uri permanent
}
You can redirect all users that come from a specific website. This rule can be used to ban websites that steal bandwidth or show different content from visitors from other websites.
Match Type Exact
Location /example.html
Features if ( $http_referer ~ https://domain.com ) {
REWRITE RULE ^ https://example.com/banned.html permanent
}
This will allow the customer to redirect to certain Countries. In this example, we will redirect users from the United States and the United Kingdom to an English version of the website they are visiting.
Match Type Default
Features if ( $geoip_city_country_code ~* (US|UK) ) {
REWRITE RULE ^ https://english.$http_host$request_uri$1 permanent
}
This will allow the ts file .ts to be cached for 60 second
Match Type Regex
Features if ( Location .ts ) {
IGNORE QUERY STRING 1
TTL OVERRIDE 60s
ADD HEADER Cache-Control max-age=60
}
The ts file .ts will be cached for 3600 second
Match Type Regex
Features if (Location .ts ) {
IGNORE QUERY STRING 1
TTL OVERRIDE 3600s
ADD HEADER Cache-Control max-age=3600
}
Allows you to specify the original domain that should be attributed with the SEO score instead of the CDN accelerated one.
Match Type Regex
Location .(?:pdf|htm?l|png|jpe?g|gif)$
Features ADD HEADER
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