Welcome back! In Part 1, we covered environment setup, installation, and logging into SafeLine. Now, let's explore how to deploy SafeLine in different scenarios and enable advanced protection.
🏗️ Deployment Scenarios
1. Deploy SafeLine on a Separate Server (Recommended)
- Website server IP:
IPA(listening on port 80, domainexample.com) - SafeLine server IP:
IPB
Steps:
- Point your domain DNS to
IPB(SafeLine server). - Configure SafeLine according to the provided settings.
- On your website server, block all access except from SafeLine (e.g., firewall rules).
Verify success:
If visiting http://example.com:80 loads your site and SafeLine’s dashboard shows “Today’s Requests” increasing, you’re all set! 🎉
2. Deploy SafeLine on the Website Server (Not Recommended)
Why not recommended?
This setup increases server load, raises downtime risk, and makes troubleshooting harder.
- Website server IP:
IPA, port 80, domainexample.com
Steps:
- Change your website's listening port to a different port (e.g., port A), so that port 80 becomes free and unused.
- Configure SafeLine to listen on port 80 and proxy incoming requests to your website on port A.
Verify success:
Same as above.
3. Deploy SafeLine Alongside Other Reverse Proxy Devices
SafeLine can be inserted anywhere in your traffic chain.
- Website server IP:
IPA - SafeLine server IP:
IPB - Upstream proxy IP:
IPC, portC - Downstream server IP:
IPD, domainexample.com
Steps:
- Point downstream proxy traffic to SafeLine at
IPC:80. - Set SafeLine’s upstream server to
IPC:C.
Verify success:
Same as above.
🛡️ Advanced Protection
The new version adds advanced protection configuration per individual site, allowing you to apply extra defense settings on a per-site basis.
Note: Custom rules are not affected by the current global switches.
Human Verification
Click to enable human verification (CAPTCHA) for the specific site.
Identity Authentication
Click to add an extra identity authentication rule for the current site.
You’ve now learned how to deploy SafeLine WAF in various scenarios and enabled advanced protection features to secure your web applications.
In the final part, we will guide you through testing your WAF’s effectiveness, installing Docker on CentOS if needed, and troubleshooting common issues to ensure your deployment runs smoothly.
👉 Ready to complete your setup?
Continue with Part 3: SafeLine WAF – Testing, Docker Setup & Troubleshooting Guide.
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📢 Notes
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Original link: https://blog.csdn.net/m0_74375496/article/details/140550745
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