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How to enable Atomic rulesets in ModSecurity for Plesk on RHEL 8/ CloudLinux 8/ AlmaLinux 8 and Rocky Linux 8 OS?

Log in to Plesk.
Install the Panel.ini Editor extension in Extensions > Extensions Catalog > Categories > Server Tools page.
Go to Extensions > My Extensions > Panel.ini Editor > Open > Editor.
Add the lines below at the bottom:

[modSecurity]
ruleSet.tortix = true
ruleSet.atomic = true

Note: the ruleSet.atomic directive is to enable for Atomic Advanced and ruleSet.tortix to enable for Atomic Standard ruleset
Press the Save button to apply the changes.

Log into the server via SSH.
Execute the command below to open the /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/panel.ini file in vi text editor:
# plesk conf panel.ini
Add the lines below at the bottom:

[modSecurity]
ruleSet.tortix = true
ruleSet.atomic = true

Note: ruleSet.atomic is to enable for Atomic Advanced and ruleSet.tortix to enable for Atomic Standard ruleset
Save the changes.