itoffshore
commented
2 years ago In your case it should be sufficient to set:
VHOST_EXT="conf"
VHOST_DIR=/etc/nginx/conf.d/users
as setup-ngxblocker searches for all files / symlinks with VHOST_EXT in VHOST_DIR
If you have something in your web environment changing user.conf & you are root you can change the attributes & make the file immutable:
chattr +i /etc/nginx/conf.d/users/user.conf
this will prevent the file being changed or deleted (even by root) - until you chattr -i the file to clear the attribute.
lunaraurora
Hello Mitchell, i have switched from Apache2.4 (where i had apache ultimate bad bot blocker installed and working) to nginx/apache reverse proxy. Since i installed nginx reverse proxy from the tool integrated in my whm console, nginx have a bit different configuration - example: there's no vhost file - instead there's a file inside the directory /etc/nginx/conf.d/users/user.conf which works practically as vhost. Now, what i've done was just to replace in your file setup-ngxblocker the sentences VHOST_EXT and VHOST_DIR with the correct extension (from vhost to conf) and the path of the user.conf file:
VHOST_EXT="conf" VHOST_DIR=/etc/nginx/conf.d/users
the installation was successful, i found such sentences
include /etc/nginx/bots.d/ddos.conf; include /etc/nginx/bots.d/blockbots.conf;
in the file /etc/nginx/conf.d/users/user.conf and nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker works as expected.
Now, i have few questions: first of all could you confirm if i did well, or i made some mistakes in such configuration? Also, the old apache ultimate bad bot blocker is still running, i have not touched it; should i remove it? In case how should i uninstall it? And last thing, i found that sometimes, maybe because of updates or other operations on nginx, the file /etc/nginx/conf.d/users/user.conf lose the include blockbots.conf/ddos.conf statement.. how can i make it permanent in such file?
Advanced thanks for your response
best regards, Jeff