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#12322 How to test Web Application Firewall

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Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 14:49 CDT

habdaddy
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: 2.54
PHP version: 5.2.17
MySQL version: 5.0.95
Host:
Admin Tools version: 2.2.5

Description of my issue:
I really like the tool and have started getting into the Web Application Firewall section. It asks about using a custom message and HTML file. I want to use this but am wondering the best way to test this. I would like to see the HTML in action and/or the message.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hm, that's a good question. You can't test the firewall without triggering an error. If you have enabled the SQLiShield feature (recommended) you can try visiting a seemingly malicious URL like http://www.example.com/index.php?faketest=1;DROP+TABLE+nonexistent (where www.example.com is your site's name) to trigger the error message display.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

habdaddy
I will give that a try. Great tool. I have been using the free tool and recommending it to others but it was not until today when I got an email from OSTraining about a tutorial on security that it really showed how powerful Admin Tools really is. If it were not for that tutorial, I would have never known.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
This is usually what happens with security tools. Everyone is using them, but you really don't know about them unless you see a presentation about them :) Thank you for your kind words!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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