apache commands that ‘might’ make your server more PCI compliant

Posted on March 31, 2015 | updated: January 4, 2023

apache commands that ‘might’ make your server more PCI compliant

Add the following commands to you Apache configuration file to help make it more PCI compliant.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
RewriteRule .* - [F]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACK
RewriteRule .* - [F]
SSLProtocol All -SSLv2 -SSLv3
SSLHonorCipherOrder on
SSLCipherSuite "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA RC4 !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS"

Update: I have made some new notes in another blog post for requirements that helped a client pass an additional test with TrustWave

ip tables commands which ‘might’ make your firewall PCI compliant

Posted on March 31, 2015

Linux PCI Ubuntu

ip tables commands which ‘might’ make your firewall PCI compliant

This is a list of the iptables commands that will setup a minimal firewall which ‘might’ be PCI compliant

This is primarily here to remind me, so I have a reference in the future.

I also have ports for FTP and SSH for a single developer IP as well as monitoring for a single monitoring server. The format is simple and can easily be changed for other services.

Be sure to replace ‘my.ip’ with your development ip, and ‘monitoring.ip’ with

This is on a Linux Ubuntu machine (of course)

apt-get install iptables iptables-persistent

iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -s my.ip/32 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 21 -s my.ip/32 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5666 -s monitoring.ip/32-j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-unreachable


iptables -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type timestamp-request -j DROP
iptables -A OUTPUT -p icmp --icmp-type timestamp-reply -j DROP

iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN FIN,SYN -j DROP
iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN,RST -j DROP
iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG FIN,PSH,URG -j DROP
iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG FIN -j DROP
iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG NONE -j DROP
iptables -t raw -A PREROUTING -p tcp --tcp-flags FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG FIN,SYN,RST,PSH,ACK,URG -j DROP
iptables-save > /etc/iptables/rules.v4