NGINX WAF

Protect against Layer 7 attacks such as SQLi, XSS, CSRF, LFI, RFI, and more. The NGINX web application firewall (WAF) is built on ModSecurity 3.0.

Installation Instructions

Install the NGINX WAF module.

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

$ yum install nginx-plus-module-modsecurity

For Debian and Ubuntu:

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

For SLES:

$ zypper install nginx-plus-module-modsecurity

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;
```
Perform additional configuration as required by the module.
Reload NGINX Plus to enable the module:
```
$ nginx -t && nginx -s reload
```