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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure
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Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure

by Yohan Wadia, Rowan Udell, Lucas Chan, Udita Gupta
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
690 pages
16h
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating rules

With your conditions defined, we now move on to the next important aspect of configuring WAF: rules. Rules basically allow you to combine one or more condition, into a logical statement, which can then be used to either allow, block, or count a particular incoming request:

  1. In the Create rules page, you can now merge the conditions we created a while back and assign each rule a corresponding action, such as allow, block, or count. To get started, select the Create rule option.
  1. In the Create rule popup, we will be creating two rules: one rule that will basically allow me to access the WordPress admin login page (wp-login.php) from my local laptop, and another rule that blocks traffic to the same login page. Let's first create ...
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