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How to install nginx-module-abuse-guard in CentOS/RHEL 9 (x86_64)

Auto-ban abusive clients by error-response rate (404/403/5xx)

Install

sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf config-manager --enable getpagespeed-extras-mainline
sudo dnf -y install nginx-module-abuse-guard

Description

NGINX module that watches the rate of error responses (404/403/5xx by default) each client generates and applies a timed in-process lockout to clients whose traffic is mostly failure. The ban decision is made in the NGINX preaccess phase, before any handler or upstream runs, with a fixed per-client memory footprint independent of the threshold. Optional Redis/Valkey ban replication across nodes and optional on-disk ban snapshots that survive reloads and reboots. No daemon, log shipper, or scripting layer required. To enable this module after installation, add the following to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and reload NGINX: load_module modules/ngx_http_abuse_guard_module.so; Alternatively, enable all installed modules by adding this line to the top of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf: include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;

Compatibility

This package is compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

RPMs

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