How to hide/ disable server signature in AWS EC2 (Ubuntu / Apache)

For security purpose sometimes we need to hide our server identity. We can hide server signatures by folloiwing these steps :

Step: 1

Open your apache server config file present at /etc/apache2/ using following command:

sudo nano /ec2/apache2/apache2.conf

1	sudo nano /ec2/apache2/apache2.conf

Step: 2

Now add the following code if missing, in case if exists please uncomment it:

ServerSignature Off
ServerTokens Prod

1 2	ServerSignature Off ServerTokens Prod

Save the file and restart Apache server using :

sudo service apache2 reload

1	sudo service apache2 reload