Building a Web Application Firewall with Nginx and Lua
Overview
A Web Application Firewall (WAF) filters HTTP/HTTPS traffic to protect web applications from common exploits such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and DDoS/CC attacks. By leveraging Nginx’s event-driven architecture and Lua’s lightweight scripting capabilities via the lua-nginx-module, a high-performence, rule-based WAF ca ...
Posted on Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:20 +0000 by EriRyoutan