Error on ModSecurity™ Tools

Masimo

• April 04, 2016 12:47

I have following error on "ModSecurity" Tools": Error: The following exception has occurred: API failure: The system could not read the modsec database password file "/var/cpanel/modsec_db_pass": NOTE: I using remote mysql server.

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 04, 2016 23:42

  Hello :) Please let us know if the following command addresses this issue:
  /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/setup_modsec_db
  Thank you.

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  Masimo

  • April 05, 2016 14:55

  info [setup_modsec_db] Initialized ModSecurity" database.

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 05, 2016 17:02

  That's the output from the command. However, could you verify if the error message you reported is still visible? Thank you.

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  Masimo

  • April 06, 2016 06:42

  Yes, its still exists.

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 06, 2016 20:06

  Could you verify if the "/var/cpanel/modsec_db_pass" file exists on this system? If not, please create this file:
  touch /var/cpanel/modsec_db_pass chmod 0600 /var/cpanel/modsec_db_pass
  Then, populate this file with a single line containing a randomly generated password. Here's an example (note you should use your own randomly generated password):
  # cat /var/cpanel/modsec_db_pass RandomPassword
  Then, update the password for the database to the one in that file:
  mysql mysql

mysql> update user set Password=password('RandomPassword') where User='modsec'; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) Rows matched: 1 Changed: 1 Warnings: 0 mysql> flush privileges; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) mysql> quit; Bye
  Thank you.

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  Masimo

  • April 07, 2016 11:22

  Thank you very much, problem resolved :)

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  cPanelMichael

  • April 07, 2016 15:49

  I am happy to see the issue is now resolved. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.

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