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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