# Example configuration file for the mod_security Apache module
# This is a minimal setup. You should add some extra entries here.

LoadModule security_module modules/mod_security.so

<IfModule mod_security.c>

    # Turn the filtering engine On or Off
    SecFilterEngine On

    # The audit engine works independently and
    # can be turned On of Off on the per-server or
    # on the per-directory basis
    SecAuditEngine RelevantOnly

    # Make sure that URL encoding is valid
    SecFilterCheckURLEncoding On
    
    # Unicode encoding check
    SecFilterCheckUnicodeEncoding On
    
    # Only allow bytes from this range
    SecFilterForceByteRange 1 255

    # Cookie format checks.
    SecFilterCheckCookieFormat On	
 
    # The name of the audit log file
    SecAuditLog logs/audit_log

    # Should mod_security inspect POST payloads
    SecFilterScanPOST On

    # Default action set
    SecFilterDefaultAction "deny,log,status:406"

    # Simple example filter
    # SecFilter 111
   
    # Prevent path traversal (..) attacks
    SecFilter "\.\./"

    # Weaker XSS protection but allows common HTML tags
    SecFilter "<( |\n)*script"

    # Prevent XSS atacks (HTML/Javascript injection)
    SecFilter "<(.|\n)+>"

    # Very crude filters to prevent SQL injection attacks
    SecFilter "delete[[:space:]]+from"
    SecFilter "insert[[:space:]]+into"
    SecFilter "select.+from"

    # Require HTTP_USER_AGENT and HTTP_HOST headers
    SecFilterSelective "HTTP_USER_AGENT|HTTP_HOST" "^$"

    # Only accept request encodings we know how to handle
    # we exclude GET requests from this because some (automated)
    # clients supply "text/html" as Content-Type
    SecFilterSelective REQUEST_METHOD "!^GET$" chain
    SecFilterSelective HTTP_Content-Type "!(^$|^application/x-www-form-urlencoded$|^multipart/form-data)"

    # Require Content-Length to be provided with
    # every POST request
    SecFilterSelective REQUEST_METHOD "^POST$" chain
    SecFilterSelective HTTP_Content-Length "^$"

    # Don't accept transfer encodings we know we don't handle
    # (and you don't need it anyway)
    SecFilterSelective HTTP_Transfer-Encoding "!^$"

    </IfModule>