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Upgrading Wallarm NGINX modules

These instructions describe the steps to update Linux node packages to version 2.18. Linux node packages are packages installed in accordance with one of the following instructions:

Update procedure

  • If filtering node and postanalytics modules are installed on the same server, then follow the instrutions below to update all packages.

  • If filtering node and postanalytics modules are installed on different servers, then first update the postanalytics module following these instructions and perform the steps below for filtering node modules.

Step 1: Add new Wallarm repository

Delete the previous Wallarm repository address and add a repository with a new Wallarm node version package. Please use the commands for the appropriate platform.

CentOS and Amazon Linux 2.0.2021x and lower

sudo yum remove wallarm-node-repo
sudo rpm -i https://repo.wallarm.com/centos/wallarm-node/7/2.18/x86_64/Packages/wallarm-node-repo-1-6.el7.noarch.rpm

sudo yum remove wallarm-node-repo
sudo rpm -i https://repo.wallarm.com/centos/wallarm-node/8/2.18/x86_64/Packages/wallarm-node-repo-1-6.el8.noarch.rpm

Debian and Ubuntu

  1. Open the file with the Wallarm repository address in the installed text editor. In these instructions, vim is used.

    sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wallarm.list

  2. Comment out or delete the previous repository address.

  3. Add a new repository address:

    deb http://repo.wallarm.com/debian/wallarm-node stretch/2.18/

    deb http://repo.wallarm.com/debian/wallarm-node stretch/2.18/
deb http://repo.wallarm.com/debian/wallarm-node stretch-backports/2.18/

    deb http://repo.wallarm.com/debian/wallarm-node buster/2.18/

    deb http://repo.wallarm.com/ubuntu/wallarm-node xenial/2.18/

    deb http://repo.wallarm.com/ubuntu/wallarm-node bionic/2.18/

Step 2: Update Wallarm packages

Filtering node and postanalytics on the same server

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

sudo yum update

Filtering node and postanalytics on different servers

Sequence of steps to update the filtering node and postanalytics modules

If the filtering node and postanalytics modules are installed on different servers, then it is required to update the postanalytics packages before updating the filtering node packages.

  1. Update postanalytics packages following these instructions.

  2. Update Wallarm node packages:

    sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

    sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

    sudo yum update

Step 3: Restart NGINX

sudo systemctl restart nginx

sudo service nginx restart

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Step 4: Test Wallarm node operation

  1. Send the request with test SQLI and XSS attacks to the protected resource address:

    curl http://localhost/?id='or+1=1--a-<script>prompt(1)</script>'

  2. Open the Wallarm Console → Events section in the US Cloud or EU Cloud and ensure attacks are displayed in the list.

    Attacks in the interface

Settings customization

The Wallarm modules are updated to version 2.18. Previous filtering node settings will be applied to the new version automatically. To make additional settings, use the available directives.

Common customization options: