Activating the application firewall
Find out how to activate the application firewall on a Web Hosting plan
Find out how to activate the application firewall on a Web Hosting plan
Last updated 26th April 2021
ModSecurity is a complementary Apache module that filters all incoming requests on your web server. It increases security against known vulnerabilities by intercepting and filtering requests before they are processed by any scripts.
The preconfigured Core Rule Set (CRS) of our ModSecurity protects your websites against the most common attacks, for example:
This guide explains how to enable your application firewall for enhanced protection in your OVHcloud Control Panel.
Log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel and switch to Web Cloud
.
Click on Hosting Plans
and select the plan concerned.
Click on the General information
tab. The current Global PHP version
is displayed in the Configuration box. Click on the ...
icon and select Modify configuration
. In the popup window, select the item Modify the current configuration
and click on the Next
button.
In the new window, make sure that Application firewall is set to activated
. To confirm the configuration, click on the Confirm
button.
Switch to the Multisite
tab of your hosting plan. Click on the ...
button in the row of the respecive domain and select the Modify domain
option.
In the configuration window, check the Enable the firewall
box. You can also include the www subdomain in this configuration by checking the box at the top.
Click on Next
and then on Confirm
to modify the Multisite settings.
Tasks to update your Multisite configuration will be listed in the Ongoing jobs
tab (initial status is Planned
). The firewall will be active once its update task no longer appears in the list.
The Multisite
tab of your hosting plan provides information on which domains have the firewall option turned on.
The table displayed contains all of the domain names that have been added to your Web Hosting plan. In the "Firewall" column, you will see the activation status for each domain.
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