How to Protect an Application from Cyber Attacks

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First of all, make sure you have successfully installed SafeLine, if not please refer to document Install SafeLine .

Protecting an application

How SafeLine works

SafeLine is a web application firewall developed based on nginx, designed to help web applications defend against network attacks.

Its principle is to act as an http/https reverse proxy, receive network traffic for the original website, then clean the malicious attack traffic and forward the safe and reliable traffic to the original application.

Proxy an application in SafeLine

Log into the SafeLine Web Admin Console, go to the "Applications" page and click the "Add Application" button in the upper right corner.
In the next dialog box, enter the information to the original App.

Domain: domain name of your original App, or hostname, or ip address, for example: www.chaitin.com.
Port: port that SafeLine will listen, such as 80 or 443. (for https Apps, please check the SSL option).
Upstream: real address of your original App, through which SafeLine will forward traffic to it.

After completing the above settings, please resolve the domain name you just entered to the IP address of the server where SafeLine is located.

Then you can access the application protected by the SafeLine through the domain name like this.