Install or Update to version 1.9.3 all same
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Open Source Web Application Firewall
ModSecurity at work

ModSecurity is an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications (or a web application firewall). Operating as an Apache Web server module or standalone, the purpose of ModSecurity is to increase web application security, protecting web applications from known and unknown attacks.


Apache 1.x

Code:
Code:
wget http://www.web4host.net/tools/modsecurity-apache1.sh
chmod 755 modsecurity-apache1.sh
sh modsecurity-apache1.sh
Apache 2.x

Code:
Code:
wget http://www.web4host.net/tools/modsecurity-apache2.sh
chmod 755 modsecurity-apache2.sh
sh modsecurity-apache2.sh
edit httpd.conf

Code:
Code:
nano -w /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
find mod_security then past this after


Code:
Code:
<IfModule mod_security.c>
# Only inspect dynamic requests
# (YOU MUST TEST TO MAKE SURE IT WORKS AS EXPECTED)
#SecFilterEngine DynamicOnly
 
SecFilterEngine On
 
# Reject requests with status 500
SecFilterDefaultAction "deny,log,status:500"
 
# Some sane defaults
SecFilterScanPOST On
SecFilterCheckURLEncoding On
SecFilterCheckCookieFormat On
SecFilterCheckUnicodeEncoding Off
SecFilterNormalizeCookies On
# enable version 1 (RFC 2965) cookies
SecFilterCookieFormat 1
 
SecServerResponseToken Off
 
#If you want to scan the output, uncomment these
#SecFilterScanOutput On
#SecFilterOutputMimeTypes "(null) text/html text/plain"
 
# Accept almost all byte values
SecFilterForceByteRange 1 255
 
# Server masking is optional
#fake server banner - NOYB used - no one needs to know what we are using
SecServerSignature "Power MOD by web4host.net"
 
#SecUploadDir /tmp
#SecUploadKeepFiles Off
 
# Only record the interesting stuff
SecAuditEngine RelevantOnly
SecAuditLog logs/audit_log
 
# You normally won't need debug logging
SecFilterDebugLevel 0
SecFilterDebugLog logs/modsec_debug_log
 
#Use one rules - Remove # to active Rules
# V1.0
#Include /etc/modsecurity/mini1.conf
# V2.0
#Include /etc/modsecurity/mini2.conf
# V3.0
#Include /etc/modsecurity/mini3.conf
# V4.0
#Include /etc/modsecurity/mini.conf
# V5.0
#Include /etc/modsecurity/mini.conf
</IfModule>
Search for ‘AddModule’ string, and make sure that AddModule mod_security.c

Do a safe apache restart

Code:
Code:
/sbin/service httpd restartRemove # to active Rules (V1.0=low load / V5.0=more load)
if you want update mini rules

Code:
Code:
wget http://www.web4host.net/tools/modsecurity-rule.sh
chmod 755 modsecurity-rule.sh
./modsecurity-rule.sh
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