Install Modsecurity On Apache Windows
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How To Install Modsecurity
For those of you in the hosting business, or if you’re hosting your own servers and exposing them to the Internet, securing your systems against attackers must be a high priority. Modsecurity (an open source intrusion detection and prevention engine for web applications that integrates seamlessly with the web server) and modevasive are two very important tools that can be used to protect a web server against brute force or (D)DoS attacks. Read Also: modevasive, as its name suggests, provides evasive capabilities while under attack, acting as an umbrella that shields web servers from such threats. Install ModSecurity and ModEvasive to Protect Apache In this article we will discuss how to install, configure, and put them into play along with Apache on RHEL/ CentOS 6 and 7 as well as Fedora 21-15. In addition, we will simulate attacks in order to verify that the server reacts accordingly. This assumes that you have a LAMP server installed on your system.
Apache For Windows Server
If not, please check this article before proceeding further. You will also need to setup iptables as the default firewall front-end instead of if you’re running RHEL/CentOS 7 or Fedora 21. We do this in order to use the same tool in both RHEL/ CentOS 7/ 6 and Fedora 21.
Step 1: Installing Iptables Firewall on RHEL/CentOS 7 and Fedora 21 To begin, stop and disable firewalld: # systemctl stop firewalld # systemctl disable firewalld. Modsecurity + modevasive Configurations Now, in order to integrate these two modules with Apache and have it load them when it starts, make sure the following lines appear in the top level section of modevasive.conf and modsecurity.conf, respectively: LoadModule evasive20module modules/modevasive24.so LoadModule security2module modules/modsecurity2.so Note that modules/modsecurity2.so and modules/modevasive24.so are the relative paths, from the /etc/httpd directory to the source file of the module. You can verify this (and change it, if needed) by listing the contents of the /etc/httpd/modules directory: # cd /etc/httpd/modules # pwd # ls -l grep -Ei '(evasive security)'.