ModSecurity: ModSecurity collection expirevar does not work

When I use collection ‘IP’, the variable in collection never expire even if I restart nginx. The variable in collecion expired unless I remove the files:modsec-shared-collections modsec-shared-collections-lock in disk,

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Created 6 years ago
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Meanwhile here’s a workaround for everyone who needs DOS protection to work. The hack uses dedicated variables in conjunction with the TIME_EPOCH variable to explicitly expire the DOS variables.

REQUEST-912-DOS-PROTECTION.conf.txt

theseion on Mar 20, 2019

This has now been merged.

martinhsv on Oct 25, 2023

Hello,@pixelicous I met the same problem. Has this problem been solved?

liusir-ht on Mar 31, 2023