Install Mod_Security On Plesk Server(Centos)

Install mod_security with YUM. This tool can prevent a lot of problems, file injections, attacks etc to apache.

# wget -q -O – http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic.sh | sh
# yum install mod_security

You can get the Free Mod_Security Rules.

# cd /etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/

Download rules:
# wget http://downloads.prometheus-group.com/delayed/rules/modsec-2.5-free-latest.tar.gz

Extract it :

#tar -zxvf modsec-2.5-free-latest.tar.gz

Note: Make sure that 00_asl_rbl.conf, 00_asl_whitelist.conf will be uninstalled, renamed or deleted. You can disable some rules what you do not need or create problems. After you done all with your modification restart the apache.

#/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Have a fun 🙂