pymodsecurity requires Python 3.3 or greater and the following packages:

• cffi
• setuptools
• libmodsecurity (C library)

And optionally for the documentation:

• sphinx
• sphinx_rtd_theme

Note:

• make sure that libmodsecurity version is 3.0.0 or greater.
• all libmodsecurity.so files must be visible in standard library path, it can be done by using symlinks like so:

$ ln -s /current/path/to/libmodsecurity.so /standard/path/to/lib/libmodsecurity.so

pymodsecurity uses setuptools, so you can install it using:

$ python3 setup.py build
$ python3 setup.py install

libmodsecurity is not yet stable, and you may want to install it locally rather than on the system. Once libmodsecurity is installed (for instance in /opt/libmodsecurity), you can use it by doing:

$ OPT=/opt/libmodsecurity
$ LIBRARY_PATH=$OPT/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OPT/lib C_INCLUDE_PATH=$OPT/include python setup.py install

and later, invoke your python script using libmodsecurity with:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OPT/lib python my_program.py

If sphinx is installed, build the documentation:

$ cd ./doc
$ make html

Browse it from https://localhost:8000/ with:

$ cd doc/_build/html && python -m http.server

You can run unit tests by doing:

$ python3 setup.py test

It will look for tests name based directories and perform all tests in them.