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Create Web Acl

waf_create_web_acl R Documentation

This is AWS WAF Classic documentation

Description

This is AWS WAF Classic documentation. For more information, see AWS WAF Classic in the developer guide.

For the latest version of AWS WAF, use the AWS WAFV2 API and see the AWS WAF Developer Guide. With the latest version, AWS WAF has a single set of endpoints for regional and global use.

Creates a WebACL, which contains the Rules that identify the CloudFront web requests that you want to allow, block, or count. AWS WAF evaluates Rules in order based on the value of Priority for each Rule.

You also specify a default action, either ALLOW or BLOCK. If a web request doesn't match any of the Rules in a WebACL, AWS WAF responds to the request with the default action.

To create and configure a WebACL, perform the following steps:

  1. Create and update the ByteMatchSet objects and other predicates that you want to include in Rules. For more information, see create_byte_match_set, update_byte_match_set, create_ip_set, update_ip_set, create_sql_injection_match_set, and update_sql_injection_match_set.

  2. Create and update the Rules that you want to include in the WebACL. For more information, see create_rule and update_rule.

  3. Use get_change_token to get the change token that you provide in the ChangeToken parameter of a create_web_acl request.

  4. Submit a create_web_acl request.

  5. Use get_change_token to get the change token that you provide in the ChangeToken parameter of an update_web_acl request.

  6. Submit an update_web_acl request to specify the Rules that you want to include in the WebACL, to specify the default action, and to associate the WebACL with a CloudFront distribution.

For more information about how to use the AWS WAF API, see the AWS WAF Developer Guide.

Usage

waf_create_web_acl(Name, MetricName, DefaultAction, ChangeToken, Tags)

Arguments

Name

[required] A friendly name or description of the WebACL. You can't change Name after you create the WebACL.

MetricName

[required] A friendly name or description for the metrics for this WebACL.The name can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9), with maximum length 128 and minimum length one. It can't contain whitespace or metric names reserved for AWS WAF, including "All" and "Default_Action." You can't change MetricName after you create the WebACL.

DefaultAction

[required] The action that you want AWS WAF to take when a request doesn't match the criteria specified in any of the Rule objects that are associated with the WebACL.

ChangeToken

[required] The value returned by the most recent call to get_change_token.

Tags

Value

A list with the following syntax: 

list(
  WebACL = list(
    WebACLId = "string",
    Name = "string",
    MetricName = "string",
    DefaultAction = list(
      Type = "BLOCK"|"ALLOW"|"COUNT"
    ),
    Rules = list(
      list(
        Priority = 123,
        RuleId = "string",
        Action = list(
          Type = "BLOCK"|"ALLOW"|"COUNT"
        ),
        OverrideAction = list(
          Type = "NONE"|"COUNT"
        ),
        Type = "REGULAR"|"RATE_BASED"|"GROUP",
        ExcludedRules = list(
          list(
            RuleId = "string"
          )
        )
      )
    ),
    WebACLArn = "string"
  ),
  ChangeToken = "string"
)

Request syntax

svc$create_web_acl(
  Name = "string",
  MetricName = "string",
  DefaultAction = list(
    Type = "BLOCK"|"ALLOW"|"COUNT"
  ),
  ChangeToken = "string",
  Tags = list(
    list(
      Key = "string",
      Value = "string"
    )
  )
)

Examples

## Not run: 
# The following example creates a web ACL named CreateExample.
svc$create_web_acl(
  ChangeToken = "abcd12f2-46da-4fdb-b8d5-fbd4c466928f",
  DefaultAction = list(
    Type = "ALLOW"
  ),
  MetricName = "CreateExample",
  Name = "CreateExample"
)

## End(Not run)