diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 64b13fe8..d6124a0c 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2318,6 +2318,13 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "guards"
+version = "1.0.0"
+dependencies = [
+ "actix-web",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "h2"
 version = "0.2.7"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index df9c7cd5..b3349b3a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ members = [
    "graphql/async-graphql",
    "graphql/juniper-advanced",
    "graphql/juniper",
+   "guards",
    "http-proxy",
    "https-tls/awc-https",
    "https-tls/openssl-auto-le",
diff --git a/guards/Cargo.toml b/guards/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bcdb9d7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guards/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[package]
+name = "guards"
+version = "1.0.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+[dependencies]
+actix-web = "4"
diff --git a/guards/README.md b/guards/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aa684da6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guards/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# guards
+
+Shows how to set up custom routing guards.
+- Routing different API versions using a header instead of path.
+
+## Usage
+
+### Running The Server
+
+```sh
+cd guards
+cargo run --bin=guards
+```
+
+### Available Routes
+
+#### `GET /api/hello`
+
+Requires the `Accept-Version` header to be present and set to `1` or `2`.
+
+Using [HTTPie]:
+
+```sh
+http :8080/api/hello Accept-Version:1
+```
+
+Using [cURL]:
+
+```sh
+curl 'localhost:8080/api/hello' -H 'accept-version: 1'
+```
+
+[HTTPie]: https://httpie.org
+[cURL]: https://curl.haxx.se
diff --git a/guards/src/main.rs b/guards/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..059a9d68
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guards/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+use actix_web::{
+    body::MessageBody,
+    dev::{ServiceFactory, ServiceRequest, ServiceResponse},
+    get,
+    guard::{Guard, GuardContext},
+    middleware::DefaultHeaders,
+    web, App, Error, HttpServer, Responder,
+};
+
+mod v1 {
+    use super::*;
+
+    pub struct ApiGuard;
+
+    impl Guard for ApiGuard {
+        fn check(&self, ctx: &GuardContext<'_>) -> bool {
+            ctx.head()
+                .headers()
+                .get("Accept-Version")
+                .map_or(false, |hv| hv.as_bytes() == b"1")
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[get("/hello")]
+    pub async fn hello() -> impl Responder {
+        "Hello World from v1 API!"
+    }
+}
+
+mod v2 {
+    use super::*;
+
+    pub struct ApiGuard;
+
+    impl Guard for ApiGuard {
+        fn check(&self, ctx: &GuardContext<'_>) -> bool {
+            ctx.head()
+                .headers()
+                .get("Accept-Version")
+                .map_or(false, |hv| hv.as_bytes() == b"2")
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[get("/hello")]
+    pub async fn hello() -> impl Responder {
+        "Hello World from the awesome new v2 API!"
+    }
+}
+
+fn create_app() -> App<
+    impl ServiceFactory<
+        ServiceRequest,
+        Response = ServiceResponse<impl MessageBody>,
+        Config = (),
+        InitError = (),
+        Error = Error,
+    >,
+> {
+    App::new()
+        .service(web::scope("/api").guard(v1::ApiGuard).service(v1::hello))
+        .service(web::scope("/api").guard(v2::ApiGuard).service(v2::hello))
+        // using this form of API version selection means that we need to send a Vary header so that
+        // caches won't try to serve the wrong response
+        .wrap(DefaultHeaders::new().add(("Vary", "Accept-Version")))
+}
+
+#[actix_web::main]
+async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
+    HttpServer::new(create_app)
+        .bind(("127.0.0.1", 8080))?
+        .run()
+        .await
+}
diff --git a/shutdown-server/README.md b/shutdown-server/README.md
index f56076df..0859aae9 100644
--- a/shutdown-server/README.md
+++ b/shutdown-server/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Demonstrates how to shutdown the web server in a couple of ways:
 ### Running The Server
 
 ```sh
-cd basics/shutdown-server
+cd shutdown-server
 cargo run --bin shutdown-server
 
 # Starting 8 workers