How to install nginx-honeypot in CentOS/RHEL 7 (noarch)

NGINX honeypot - detect malicious bots (and optionally firewall-ban them)

License: MIT https://github.com/dvershinin/nginx-honeypot

Install

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install nginx-honeypot

Description

NGINX honeypot with lots of "honey" for bad bots. A map of bot-bait request URIs (phpMyAdmin probes, .env grabs, exploit paths) makes NGINX return 410 Gone, cutting server load and log noise. The package is config-only and needs nothing but nginx. Banning the offending IP is optional and opt-in: a free fcgiwrap + ipset path, and a Pro path that bans from one directive via nginx-module-nftset-access. Both are documented in the README.

RPMs

nginx-honeypot-1.0.0-1.el7.noarch [11 KiB]

Danila Vershinin (2026-05-27) — - Initial package