AzizKpln/pymodsecurity

Python Bindings for ModSecurity v3

ModSecurity Python

Python binding for ModSecurity

• Note: This is an alpha version. Crashes are expected. Comments and suggestions are welcome

Developer Guide

Dependencies

libmodsecurity, python-dev or python3-dev as well as cmake

Bindings and ModSecurity Version Reference

pymodsecurity	ModSecurity
v0.0.1	v3.0.2
v0.0.2	v3.0.2
v0.0.3	v3.0.2
v0.0.4	v3.0.3
v0.0.5	v3.0.3

Please refer to ModSecurity Releases and ModSecurity Installation Guide

Packages

Pymodsecurity is available as an python package, to install it simply run:

$ pip install pymodsecurity

Building from source

There are multiple ways to build pymodsecurity from source, you can either compile the module manually with CMake, install using setup.py or build a conda package using the recipe. Below are steps for each way.

Installing via setup.py

1 - Clone this repo and update the pybind11 submodule:

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/pymodsecurity/pymodsecurity.git

2 - Compile and install the module:

$ python setup.py install

Compiling with CMake

1 - Clone this repo and update the pybind11 submodule:

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/pymodsecurity/pymodsecurity.git

2 - Create a build directory:

$ mkdir build && cd build

3 - Run CMake and make:

$ cmake .. && make

4 - Add the shared library to python's path

Building and installing with conda

If you're using conda, you can build the package locally using conda-build (you will need to install conda-build).

1 - Clone this repo and update the pybind11 submodule:

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/pymodsecurity/pymodsecurity.git

2 - Run conda-build:

$ conda-build recipe

3 - Install the package:

$ conda install --use-local pymodsecurity

Examples

Some examples are provided in the examples/ directory. More are coming soon.

Real world examples

django middleware