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by taenzerme
Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:15 am
Forum: Atomicorp Modsecurity Rules Support
Topic: nginx vs apache with rules only
Replies: 4
Views: 11819

Re: nginx vs apache with rules only

prupert wrote:That depends on your setup. I have seen incredibly good results with Apache 2.4 and mpm_event.
Thanks for the recommendation. After some tweaking mpm_event does the job really well.
by taenzerme
Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:55 am
Forum: Atomicorp Modsecurity Rules Support
Topic: aum & automatic updates
Replies: 2
Views: 9865

Re: aum & automatic updates

Michael, unfortunately something does not work as expected. I installed aum on our Debian 8 instance and everything seems to work, yet the automatic updates don't. xxxx@xxxx:/var/asl/updates# ll insgesamt 2624 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 669734 Okt 14 00:08 modsec-201510131655.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root r...
by taenzerme
Mon Oct 19, 2015 12:11 pm
Forum: Atomicorp Modsecurity Rules Support
Topic: aum & automatic updates
Replies: 2
Views: 9865

aum & automatic updates

Hello, we're using aum with a valid rules subscription. The documents mention that aum updates the rules automatically. How is this done? Has anything to be done that rules are refreshed every x hours? For now I ran aum -uf (-u did not update the rules after a change in config file) but do I need to...
by taenzerme
Tue Oct 13, 2015 4:38 am
Forum: Atomicorp Modsecurity Rules Support
Topic: nginx vs apache with rules only
Replies: 4
Views: 11819

Re: nginx vs apache with rules only

scott, thanks for the feedback. I understand that this is the official "recommendation", yet I'm curious if still anyone is using nginx with modsec in production at the moment. We've been working with the self compiled nginx-refactored branch for now and did not run into any problems (no m...
by taenzerme
Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:24 am
Forum: Atomicorp Modsecurity Rules Support
Topic: nginx vs apache with rules only
Replies: 4
Views: 11819

nginx vs apache with rules only

Hello all, I'm setting up a reverse proxy in front of some of our websites (mostly WP). I have both Apache2.4 and ngingx running with the rules and additionally Varnish4 in front for caching. Initial tests showed some great difference in regards to filtering the bad stuff and reducing server loads (...