Hi, this week I got a lot of attack which was on the below path:

2025/01/12 15:02:08 [error] 762#762: *1768584 openat() "/usr/local/apache/autossl_tmp/.well-known/acme-challenge/ALFA_DATA/alfacgiapi/bash.alfa" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 68.183.234.75, server: mysite.com, request: "GET /.well-known/pki-validation/ALFA_DATA/alfacgiapi/bash.alfa HTTP/2.0", host: "www.mysite.com"

and they trying to redirecting the website on which one they want, as well there was a huge DDoS attack on same path.

kindly advice me on how can make it secure the centos 7 with cwp please.

I put a scenario below for some security step :

edit htaccess file on the root by:

# Disable directory browsing
Options -Indexes

# Allow access to the necessary files (Let's Encrypt challenge files)
<Files "^.*\.(wP7FYuLdR7qk-y\hj.txt)$">
    Require all granted
</Files>

# Block all other files and access
<Files "*">
    Require all denied
</Files>

# Allow access from the Let's Encrypt IP addresses (source: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/#http-01-challenge)
Require ip 204.2.147.196/32
Require ip 54.86.189.80/32
Require ip 52.41.92.181/32
Require ip 52.44.188.73/32
Require ip 52.204.133.74/32

if you know a better a secure solution kindly advice it here.

thank you

It's a bit hard to know exactly what problem you're trying to solve. It seems like there are a lot of requests for non-existent files, is that it?

But apparently you're trying to solve this through the web server itself.

But seems your logs are from nginx, and your configuration is for apache.

Surely, I would recommend installing ModSecurity, and a firewall like csf.

But I still can't tell if this is a good solution, because I don't quite understand the problem you're having.

Regards,

Netino

Edited January 16Jan 16 by Netino