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What is a Web Applications Firewall?

The ModSecurity Web Applications Firewall is used to protect your website from web intrusions. By default, we activate this firewall and we strongly recommend that you leave it activated. If it causes problems with your applications, you can however deactivate it.
It secures the application layer before requests arrive on the hosted site. Detection of inclusion attempts, anti-spam, detection of exploits (it hides the version numbers used on error pages returned by the Web server), etc.

How do I set up the Web Applications Firewall?

1. Log in to the administration area of your web hosting and click on ModSecurity

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2. Activate ModSecurity by ticking the Activate box (1) and click Validate to save the changes (2).


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Conclusion

You are now able to activate the ModSecurity Web Application Firewall on your shared hosting with LWS. The Firewall allows you to secure the application layer when requests arrive on your site.

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