ModSecurity is a web application firewall that can be used for Apache web servers. It provides logging capabilities and can monitor HTTP traffic in order to detect attacks. ModSecurity can also be used as an intrusion detection tool, where we can use it to block country-specific traffic as per our requirements.
Before we start with the installation and configuration of mod_security
, we require Apache server installed on our Ubuntu system.
To install Apache on Ubuntu, run the following command:
apt-get update apt-get install apache2
In this section, we will see how to install and configure the ModSecurity Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block country-specific traffic:
- Once Apache has been installed on Ubuntu, the next step is to install ModSecurity by running the following command:
- After installing ModSecurity, restart Apache:
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