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In this section, we will see how to install and configure the ModSecurity Web Application Firewall (WAF) to block country-specific traffic:

Once Apache has been installed on Ubuntu, the next step is to install ModSecurity by running the following command:

After installing ModSecurity, restart Apache:

To confirm that ModSecurity has been installed successfully, run the following command:

If the installation is successful, ...

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