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How to enable Atomic rulesets in ModSecurity for Plesk on RHEL 8/ CloudLinux 8/ AlmaLinux 8 and Rocky Linux 8 OS?

  • Dmitry Bystrov

    • Question 

    How to enable Atomic rulesets in ModSecurity for Plesk on RHEL 8/ CloudLinux 8/ AlmaLinux 8 and Rocky Linux 8 OS?

    Answer

    1. Log in to Plesk.

    2. Install the Panel.ini Editor extension in Extensions > Extensions Catalog > Categories > Server Tools page.

    3. Go to Extensions > My Extensions > Panel.ini Editor > Open > Editor.

    4. Add the lines below at the bottom:

      [modSecurity]
      ruleSet.tortix = true
      ruleSet.atomic = true

      Note: the ruleSet.atomic directive is to enable for Atomic Advanced and ruleSet.tortix to enable for Atomic Standard ruleset

    5. Press the Save button to apply the changes.

    Solution using the SSH access 

    1. Log into the server via SSH.
    2. Execute the command below to open the /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini file in vi text editor:

      # plesk conf panel.ini

    3. Add the lines below at the bottom:

      [modSecurity]
      ruleSet.tortix = true
      ruleSet.atomic = true

      Note: ruleSet.atomic is to enable for Atomic Advanced and ruleSet.tortix to enable for Atomic Standard ruleset

    4. Save the changes.
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