NGINX ModSecurity WAF

Protect against Layer 7 attacks such as SQLi, XSS, CSRF, LFI, and RFI, with the NGINX ModSecurity WAF dynamic module, supported by NGINX.

The NGINX ModSecurity web application firewall (WAF) is built on ModSecurity 3.0.

Installation Instructions

  1. Install the NGINX ModSecurity WAF module.

    For Amazon Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL:

    $ yum install nginx-plus-module-modsecurity

    Note:: ppc64le is currently not supported for Amazon Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL.

    For Debian and Ubuntu:

    $ apt-get install nginx-plus-module-modsecurity

    Note: aarch64 and ppc64le is currently not supported for Ubuntu.

    For SLES:

    $ zypper install nginx-plus-module-modsecurity

    For Alpine:

    $ apk add nginx-plus-module-modsecurity

  2. Put the load_module directive in the top‑level (“main”) context of NGINX Plus configuration file, nginx.conf:

    load_module modules/ngx_http_modsecurity_module.so;

  3. Perform additional configuration as required by the module.

  4. Reload NGINX Plus to enable the module:

    $ nginx -t && nginx -s reload

  5. Configure the module.

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