Install Mod evasive module on cPanel(Easy Apache 4 )

Install Mod evasive module on cPanel(Easy Apache 4 ):

Date Posted: 23-09-2017

Mod evasive is a DDOS prevention module used to prevent DDOS prevention on HTTP level. Latest cPanel version has easy apache 4 and by default mod_evasive doesn’t come with it.

Recently, cPanel added cl-ea4-experimental repository. In this post, we will explain on how to install mod_evasive module on cPanel server.

Prerequisites:

1. cPanel server
2. Easy apache 4
3. WHM access

Implementation:

Login to the server via ssh.

Execute the command yum install to install the mod_evasive.

yum install --enablerepo=cl-ea4-experimental ea-apache24-mod_evasive.x86_64

Press Y to continue

Create a file /usr/local/apache/conf/includes/mod_evasive.conf

vi /usr/local/apache/conf/includes/mod_evasive.conf

<IfModule mod_evasive20.c>
    DOSHashTableSize    3097
    DOSPageCount        2
    DOSSiteCount        50
    DOSPageInterval     1
    DOSSiteInterval     1
    DOSBlockingPeriod   3600
    DOSLogDir           "/var/log/mod_evasive"
    DOSWhitelist        127.0.0.1
</IfModule>

Create a file /var/log/mod_evasive

touch /var/log/mod_evasive

Restart the httpd service

systemctl restart httpd

Verify the installed module.

# httpd -M|grep eva
evasive24_module (shared)
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