Question
Accidentally deleted /etc/modsecurity
Hi,
I had lots of issues with mod_security blocking my sites on Ubuntu 14.04, so I uninstalled it by running:
apt-get remove libapache2-mod-security2
But, this still left the /etc/modsecurity/ folder intact, so I manually removed it by running rm -rf /etc/modsecurity
I reinstalled modsecurity again and enabled it, but can’t proceed further with the configuration because, at /etc/modsecurity/, I can’t find the two files modsecurity.conf-recommended and unicode.mapping. All I get when I change to the directory /etc/modsecurity/ and do an ls -la is this:
root@host01:/etc/modsecurity# ls root@host01:/etc/modsecurity# ls -la total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 7 02:02 . drwxr-xr-x 95 root root 4096 Sep 6 16:57 … root@host01:/etc/modsecurity#
The file modsecurity.conf-recommended at this path has to be renamed to modsecurity.conf for mod_security to work, but it’s just not there.
I think it was a mistake to manually delete the /etc/modsecurity folder and would greatly appreciate any pointers to fix this issue.
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I may have a solution for you. When you use
apt-get removeapt will uninstall the program specified but retain all configuration and associated files it generated. On a re-install it attempts to continue to use these. To completely remove a program and all it’s configuration you can useapt-get purgeinstead. To start over fresh with mod_security I would recommend (from the current state where you have it installed but not working properly) doing this:This should force a complete removal and re-installation and should re-create the files in /etc/modsecurity if they were created by that package’s installation.