Re: [mod-security-users] libmodsecurity collection files location

[Ervin H. <ai...@gm...>]

Hi Ehsan,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 01:20:58PM +0430, Ehsan Mahdavi wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Modsecurity version 2 had some collection files like ip.pag, global.pag and
> etc stored in  location specified by SecDataDir  .
> Migrating to modsec V3.0 I can't find such files there.
> 
> Where should I be looking at?

I've never used ModSecurity 2, but in V3, as I know (and if it's
analog what you describe above) there are two kinds of type of
collections:

* in-memory
* lmdb

See the source:

https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/blob/95048d5fcfe43147ab0269bff69e2353817cb7c7/src/modsecurity.cc#L65
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/tree/v3/master/src/collection/backend

So, the in-memory backend stores the variables in memory, LMDB
stores in an LMDB database, therefore I'm afraid there aren't any
other files, what you're looking for.


Note, that the LMDB collection doesn't work in this state, the
patch are waiting for the merge:
https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/pull/1787

But may be I'm wrong and you're talking about totally another
context of collections. :)



a.