In my previous post I didn’t mention how to turn on the audit log, so without explanation, you put the following in your config. SecAuditEngine RelevantOnly SecAuditLogType serial SecAuditLogParts ABCFHZ We already set SecAuditLog to /var/log/modsecurity/SecAuditLog/modsec_audit.log in the previous post, which has to be writable by the web server user, www-data for ubuntu/debian. So after [...]
Some time ago, I changed my setup from nginx + spawn-fcgi to nginx + apache so I could play with mod_security. Well, one of my clients got pwned by some sql injection vulnerability, so I finally got to put it in practice. In a nut shell, mod_security is an apache module that scans http(s) traffic [...]
October 14, 2010 – 12:13 am
I’ve reinstalled apache and I’m in the process of cutting over my sites. Not completely, just for non static files, mainly php. Nginx is infront of apache serving static content and is a reverse proxy to apache which runs on 127.0.0.1:81 The reason? I want to give mod_security a spin. It’s loaded now, but it [...]