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Show the Web Application Firewall (ModSecurity) status in Plesk

harmless rootPleskdebian, ubuntu
root@server
plesk bin server_pref --show-web-app-firewall

Prints the server-wide ModSecurity settings, for example whether the rule engine is on, off or in detection-only mode. Useful when forms or uploads are rejected with 403 and you need to find out whether the WAF is behind it.

Note: Which rule actually triggered is recorded in the ModSecurity audit log, usually at /var/log/modsec_audit.log.

Open question before approval: Option --show-web-app-firewall von plesk bin server_pref auf Obsidian 18.0.x bestätigen.

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