These appear to be settings internal to the PCRE engine in order to limit the maximum amount of memory/time spent on trying to match some text to a pattern. The pcreapi manpage does little to explain it in layman’s terms: The match_limit field provides a means of preventing PCRE from using up a vast amount … Read more
SecRuleEngine Off must work . Have you tried to put SecRuleEngine inside Directory: <Directory /var/www/site/phpMA> SecRuleEngine Off </Directory> instead of LocationMatch ?
Holy recursion, Batman! I claim you have something wrong with your mod_security rules. That kind of recursion seems to be unnecessary and will most likely cause some serious load for your server. Fix the rules and/or Apache config, and don’t try to “fix” this problem with arbitrarily large numbers.
Same issue here. I am using mod_security to block the user-agent SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent “Bittorrent” “id:10000002,rev:1,severity:2,log,msg:’Bittorrent Hit Detected'” I would change the log to nolog after you verify it is working to avoid filling up your log file SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent “Bittorrent” “id:10000002,rev:1,severity:2,nolog,msg:’Bittorrent Hit Detected'”