How to Disable CORS for NodeJS Nginx Ubuntu 20.04 Server

Hi there,

To disable CORS for your Node.js API, you will need to configure Nginx to add the necessary CORS headers to the response from your API.

Here is an example of how you might do this in your Nginx configuration:

location /api {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS';
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range';
}

This configuration tells Nginx to pass requests to the /api path to the Node.js API running on port 3000, and to add the necessary CORS headers to the response. The add_header directives specify the values for the Access-Control-Allow-Origin, Access-Control-Allow-Credentials, Access-Control-Allow-Methods, and Access-Control-Allow-Headers headers, respectively.

Keep in mind that you may also need to configure CORS in your Node.js API itself, depending on how it is implemented. For example, if you are using the cors library, you can use the cors() middleware to enable CORS for your API.

Best,

Bobby