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Found live during a real install dry-run: fetching .env.example via the Gitea raw URL returned a 403 with an ARGUS-branded WAF block page -- Weboria's own front-line WAF blocks any request path matching .env* as a standard credential-harvesting-probe rule, and it caught this legitimate static file served from Gitea too. Confirmed docker-compose.yml and other non-.env-named files fetch fine; only the .env.example path was affected. Renamed to env.example (no leading dot) rather than requesting a WAF exception -- sidesteps the false positive without depending on infrastructure access this session doesn't have. Still saved locally as .env either way; only the remote filename changed.
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# ARGUS Enterprise Web Security Platform
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### A real-time security operations platform for the modern web edge
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[](LICENSE)
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[]()
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[](https://nginx.org/)
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[](https://modsecurity.org/)
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[](https://coreruleset.org/)
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[]()
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<p align="center">
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<strong>Enterprise-grade protection for the modern web edge — in the same league as Fortinet,
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Palo Alto, and F5, purpose-built for how applications are actually attacked today.</strong><br/>
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<strong>Reverse proxy. Web Application Firewall. Bot and AI-crawler defense. DNS security.
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Real-time threat intelligence. Live attack visualization. Incident investigation. One
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appliance, one dashboard, zero blind spots.</strong>
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</p>
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<p align="center">
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<a href="#-key-features">✨ Features</a> •
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<a href="#-installation">🚀 Installation</a> •
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<a href="#-operations">🛠 Operations</a> •
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<a href="#-licensing--support">📄 Licensing & Support</a>
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</p>
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---
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</div>
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## ✨ Key Features
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### 🛡️ Web Application Firewall
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ModSecurity v3 running the full OWASP Core Rule Set, tunable across paranoia levels 1–4 per
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site — start permissive on a new application, tighten as you learn its traffic. Detection-only
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or blocking mode per host, per-rule exceptions for known false positives, and a Rule Health
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view that tracks which rules are actually earning their keep versus generating noise, so tuning
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is based on evidence, not guesswork.
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### 🧠 ANIS Threat Intelligence
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ARGUS ships connected by default to **ANIS (Argus Network Intelligence Server)**, a
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community-powered reputation network: every ARGUS deployment that opts in contributes
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confirmed-attacker IPs and receives the aggregated blocklist back in return, so your appliance
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gets smarter from day one using signal from every other protected site — no license key
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required for the free Community tier. Every dashboard, investigation view, and auto-ban
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decision is enriched with live ANIS reputation scoring. Prefer to keep intelligence in-house?
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Point ARGUS at your own self-hosted ANIS instance instead, or turn the integration off entirely.
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### 🌐 Attack Origin Visualization
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A live global map of inbound attacks — real-time arcs from source to your infrastructure,
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color-coded by severity, with a running feed of top attacking countries and IPs. Pause, rewind,
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and replay historical traffic, or click straight through to any single event's full detail.
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### 🔎 Incident Investigation
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Pivot from any IP, log line, or dashboard event straight into that entity's complete history —
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every affected host it touched, every rule it triggered, its geography and ASN, and its live
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ANIS reputation score — all in one place, without losing your position in whatever you were
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looking at.
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### 🤖 Bot & AI-Crawler Defense
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Automatically blocks known-bad bots and scrapers, with a maintained allowlist so legitimate
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search engines are never caught in the net. Purpose-built detection for AI crawlers (GPTBot,
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ClaudeBot, and similar) lets you choose exactly which ones are welcome. Escalating challenge
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modes — silent browser verification, proof-of-work, visual CAPTCHA — apply exactly as much
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friction as suspicious traffic actually warrants, backed by a live risk-scoring engine so the
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decision is never a coin flip.
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### 🧬 DNS Security Engine
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Passive DNS intelligence starts working the moment your first site is protected — no network
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reconfiguration required — scoring every domain your traffic touches for DGA patterns,
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fast-flux infrastructure, and other red flags, and cross-referencing that against real WAF
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activity for a much stronger signal than either check alone. An optional embedded resolver adds
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network-wide DNS tunneling detection, NXDOMAIN-flood protection, and automatic sinkholing for
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sites that want DNS-layer coverage too.
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### 🌍 GeoIP & Cloud-Provider Access Control
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Allow or block traffic by country or hosting provider, with live visual feedback as you tune
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the policy — see exactly what would have been blocked before you commit to it.
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### 🔒 Automated SSL
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Let's Encrypt with automatic renewal, including wildcard certificates via DNS-01 challenge
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across major DNS providers (Cloudflare, DuckDNS, Dynu, and more) — certificates that never
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expire on your watch.
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### ⚡ Rate Limiting & Auto-Ban
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Configurable per-IP/per-URI rate limits, automatic banning on repeated WAF violations, and
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community-intelligence-driven blocking via ANIS — layered defenses that reinforce each other
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rather than working in isolation.
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### 👥 Enterprise User Management
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Role-based access control, per-user session management, forced password resets, account
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lock/unlock as a reversible incident-response tool, mandatory MFA for administrators, and a
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complete audit trail of every login and admin action — everything a security team needs to
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administer access with confidence.
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### 📊 Real-Time Operations Dashboard
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Live traffic, security events, and system health updated continuously — a true operations
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console, not a page you have to remember to refresh. Guided, role-based dashboard profiles (SOC
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Analyst, Security Administrator, Network Administrator, Executive Overview) put the right view
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in front of the right person automatically.
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### 🎯 Guided Security Policy Center
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Every protection module — WAF, DNS, GeoIP, Bot Protection, Rate Limiting, SSL/TLS, and more —
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comes with one-click policy tiers from Home to Maximum Protection, a plain-language impact
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preview before you apply anything, and an honest posture score that tells you exactly what's
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configured, what's missing, and why it matters. No security expertise required to deploy with
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confidence.
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### 🔀 Load Balancing & Stream Proxying
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Multiple backend servers with active health checks, plus TCP/UDP stream proxying with optional
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SNI routing for non-HTTP services.
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### 🔮 Modern Protocol Support
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HTTP/3 (QUIC) and post-quantum-ready TLS (ML-KEM hybrid key exchange) — ready for where the web
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is headed, not just where it's been.
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---
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## 🚀 Installation
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### Requirements
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- A Linux host with Docker Engine 24.0+ and the Docker Compose plugin (`docker compose`)
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- 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM minimum for evaluation; see production sizing guidance in `docs/` for
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real traffic volumes
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- Ports 80/443 available for the reverse proxy, and 81 for the admin panel (all configurable)
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### One-line install
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```bash
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curl -fsSL https://git-cloud.weboria.eu/weboria/argus-installer/raw/branch/main/install.sh | bash
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```
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This downloads the deployment files, generates secure database/application secrets, creates the
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required Docker network, pulls the production images, starts ARGUS, and prints your admin
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login at the end. Installs to `/opt/argus` by default — set `ARGUS_INSTALL_DIR` first to change
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that.
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### Manual install
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If you'd rather see every step:
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```bash
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mkdir -p /opt/argus/docker-socket-proxy && cd /opt/argus
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curl -fsSL https://git-cloud.weboria.eu/weboria/argus-installer/raw/branch/main/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml
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curl -fsSL https://git-cloud.weboria.eu/weboria/argus-installer/raw/branch/main/env.example -o .env
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curl -fsSL https://git-cloud.weboria.eu/weboria/argus-installer/raw/branch/main/docker-socket-proxy/haproxy.cfg.template -o docker-socket-proxy/haproxy.cfg.template
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# Generate a secure database password
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sed -i "s/DB_PASSWORD=.*/DB_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 24)/" .env
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# ARGUS expects this network to already exist
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docker network create argus-network
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docker compose pull
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docker compose up -d
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```
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Then log in at `https://<your-server-address>:81` with `admin` / `admin` and change the password
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immediately — the one-line installer does this rotation for you automatically.
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**Do not expose the admin panel (port 81) to the internet.** Keep it on your LAN/VPN, or put
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it behind its own proxy host with access lists and 2FA enabled.
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### Next steps after install
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1. Open the administration panel at the access URL printed at the end of install.
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2. Complete the first-run setup wizard — regional settings and a guided review of every
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protection module.
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3. Confirm your administrator password was rotated (the installer does this automatically).
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4. Configure domains and reverse proxy hosts under **Proxy Hosts**.
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5. Review the ANIS threat intelligence connection under **Threat Intel** — on by default
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against the public Community Edition hub.
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6. Review security policies in the **Security Policy Center**.
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---
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## 🛠 Operations
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All lifecycle management is Docker-based — five scripts cover day-to-day operation, downloaded
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once alongside `docker-compose.yml` (the one-line installer already does this for you), then run
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from `/opt/argus` (or wherever you installed):
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| Script | Purpose |
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| `./update.sh` | Pull the latest images and restart, with a before/after version check |
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| `./healthcheck.sh` | Report the status of every component and the admin panel |
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| `./backup.sh [dir]` | Back up the database and application data into one archive |
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| `./restore.sh <archive>` | Restore a backup onto a fresh installation |
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| `./uninstall.sh [--remove-data]` | Stop ARGUS; data is kept unless you explicitly opt in to removing it |
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You never manually download application files or modify containers directly — every update is
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delivered as a new published image version.
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### Upgrading
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```bash
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cd /opt/argus
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docker compose pull
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docker compose up -d
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```
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(`./update.sh` wraps the same two commands with a before/after version check.) This is the only
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supported upgrade path; there is no separate migration step to run.
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### Backups
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```bash
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cd /opt/argus
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./backup.sh # writes argus-backup-<timestamp>.tar.gz to the current directory
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./restore.sh <archive> # onto a fresh installation only — see the script's own header
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```
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### Resetting the admin password
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```bash
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docker compose exec api ./server reset-password
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```
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Add `--username <name>` to target a specific account, or `--password '...'` to set a known
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value instead of generating one. See `docker compose exec api ./server reset-password --help`
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for the rest of the options (clearing 2FA, etc.).
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### Threat intelligence integration
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ARGUS connects to **ANIS**, Weboria's threat-intelligence hub, to share confirmed attacker IPs
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and receive a community blocklist in return. Enabled by default against the public Community
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Edition hub — no license key required. Point `ANIS_URL` at your own self-hosted ANIS instead if
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you run one, or set `ANIS_ENABLED=false` to turn this off entirely. See the comments in
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`env.example` for the full set of options.
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---
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## 📚 API
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ARGUS exposes a full REST API for automation. Authenticate with a JWT (`POST
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/api/v1/auth/login`) for interactive use, or an API token (`Authorization: Bearer ng_<token>`,
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created from the admin panel) for CI/CD and scripted access. Interactive API documentation is
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served at `https://<your-server-address>:81/api/docs` once ARGUS is running.
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---
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## ⚙️ Environment Variables
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| Variable | Description | Default |
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|----------|-------------|---------|
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| `DB_PASSWORD` | Database password | *(generated by the installer)* |
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| `TZ` | Timezone | `UTC` |
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| `UI_PORT` | Admin panel port | `81` |
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| `NGINX_HTTP_PORT` / `NGINX_HTTPS_PORT` | Reverse-proxy listen ports | `80` / `443` |
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| `API_HOST_PORT` | Internal API port exposed to the host | `9080` |
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| `DNS_LISTEN_HOST` | DNS Security Engine bind address | `127.0.0.1` |
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| `ANIS_ENABLED` / `ANIS_URL` | Threat-intel hub integration | `true` / `https://anis.weboria.eu` |
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Full list with descriptions in `env.example`.
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---
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## 📄 Licensing & Support
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ARGUS is commercial software licensed by Weboria — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). Third-party
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open-source components retain their own licenses — see
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[THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md](THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md) and [NOTICE](NOTICE).
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For licensing questions or support, contact the **Weboria Support Portal**.
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---
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<sub>© 2025-2026 Weboria. ARGUS Enterprise Web Security Platform.</sub>
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