Installing Modshield SB from the GCP Marketplace
Step 1:Open the GCP Marketplace listing page that suits your licensing model (Cloud / BYOL), and click on the Launch button.
Step 2: Provide a suitable instance name for your new deployment. Change the Deployment Zone and Machine Type if required, while it’s recommended to use the deployment template defaults. Disk Size can be increased if logs are to be rotated less frequently or in systems requiring high traffic
Step 3:Click on the Deploy button once all the settings are finalized
Step 4:Select the deployed package overview link in the left pane and open the Admin Panel URL from the right pane to launch the administrative console.
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Accessing dashboard
Once your new instance is deployed, copy the Instance ID, which would be default password for your Modshield SB instance
Visit http://<Public IP>:5000/modshieldsb_login to access the administrative panel
Enter your GCP Instance ID in the password field to login
You should now be greeted with the empty dashboard page as follows
Step No: 2 Based on your implementation, this could be a VM or a cloud instance
Step No: 3 Before you begin, configure the DNS for your domain to point to the Modshield SB IP address
Step No: 4 Enter your Modshield password and login
Step No: 5 This dashboard will be blank if you are configuring your first website or application
Step No: 6 To add your domain to Modshield, open the domain configuration option from the configuration menu
Step No: 7 In this case, there are a few domains already added to Modshield with different configurations
Step No: 8 Choose the Add domain option to proceed. This will open up a dialog box to aid the configuration
Step No: 9 Enter your domain name in the Host Name.
Step No: 10 Add the IP address in which the application or website is hosted
Step No: 11 Enabling Firewall will turn on protection for your domain. You can also choose to turn this on later
Step No: 12 If you are running a HTTP domain, click on Add Domain to complete the configuration
Step No: 13 If you are running an HTTPS site or application, turn this option to True.
Step No: 14 You can configure the SSL for your site to ensure secure traffic to and from your site
Step No: 15 If you are not using SSL, leave the SSL option as False. Click Add Domain to complete the setup
Step No: 16 While choosing True, please have your certificate information handy
Step No: 17 These two fields will contain information about your certificate. Copy and Paste the Certificate
Step No: 18 In your certificate file, you will find this section
Step No: 19 Copy this section from Begin Certificate to End Certificate
Step No: 20 and paste it in the SSL Certificate column
Step No: 21 You will also be required to enter the Private key that your certificate uses
Step No: 22 In the same certificate file, copy the Private key section
Step No: 23 Paste it in the SSL private key Column. Click on Add Domain to complete the configuration
Step No: 24 You can see that the domain is now added to the list of domains that Modshield protect
