The following guide explains the installation of the apache module "mod_evasive". Mod_evasive tracks the number of requests of files at the apache webserver and blocks the delivery in case that a certain limit has been reached.
Installation
apt-get install libapache2-mod-evasive
Create the log directory for mod_evasive
mkdir -p /var/log/apache2/evasive
chown -R www-data:root /var/log/apache2/evasive
Now we add the configuration for the module at the end of the file /etc/apache2/mods-available/mod-evasive.load
vi /etc/apache2/mods-available/mod-evasive.load
so that it looks like this:
LoadModule evasive20_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_evasive20.so
<IfModule mod_evasive20.c>
DOSHashTableSize 3097
DOSPageCount 2
DOSSiteCount 50
DOSPageInterval 5
DOSSiteInterval 1
DOSBlockingPeriod 10
DOSLogDir "/var/log/apache2/evasive"
</IfModule>
and restart apache:
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart