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Administration Guide
Introduction
What's new
Key concepts
Workflow
Sequence of scans
IPv6 support
Solutions for specific web attacks
HTTP/2 support
HTTP sessions & security
FortiWeb high availability (HA)
Administrative domains (ADOMs)
How to use the web UI
Shutdown
How to set up your FortiWeb
Appliance vs. VMware
Registering your FortiWeb
Planning the network topology
Connecting to the web UI or CLI
Updating the firmware
Changing the “admin” account password
Setting the system time & date
Setting the operation mode
Feature visibility
Configuring High Availability (HA) basic settings
HA heartbeat & active node election
Synchronization
Replicating the configuration without FortiWeb HA (external HA)
Configuring the network settings
Configuring DNS settings
Configuring HA settings specifically for active-passive and standard active-active modes
Configuring HA settings specifically for high volume active-active mode
Defining your web servers & load balancers
Protected web servers vs. allowed/protected host names
Defining your protected/allowed HTTP “Host:” header names
Defining your web servers
Defining your proxies, clients, & X-headers
Defining your network services
Configuring virtual servers on your FortiWeb
Enabling or disabling traffic forwarding to your servers
Configuring FortiWeb to receive traffic via WCCP
Configuring basic policies
Testing your installation
Switching out of Offline Protection mode
Policies
How operation mode affects server policy behavior
Configuring the global object allow list
Configuring the allow list at server policy level
Configuring a protection profile for inline topologies
Generating a protection profile using scanner reports
Configuring a protection profile for an out-of-band topology or asynchronous mode of operation
Configuring client management
Configuring a server policy
Configuring traffic mirror
ADFS Proxy
Configuring FortiWeb as an ADFS proxy
Configuring a virtual server
Creating an ADFS server pool
Uploading trusted CA certificates
Creating an ADFS server policy
Troubleshooting
Configuring FTP security
Creating an FTP command restriction rule
Creating an FTP file check rule
Configuring an FTP security inline profile
Creating an FTP server pool
Creating an FTP server policy
Secure connections (SSL/TLS)
Offloading vs. inspection
Supported cipher suites & protocol versions
CA certificates
How to offload or inspect HTTPS
Local certificates
Let's Encrypt certificates
Using session keys provided by an HSM
Generating a certificate signing request
Uploading a server certificate
Forcing clients to use HTTPS
HTTP Public Key Pinning
How to apply PKI client authentication (personal certificates)
Seamless PKI integration
Revoking certificates
How to export/back up certificates & private keys
How to change FortiWeb's default certificate
Configuring OCSP stapling
Users
Authentication styles
Offloading HTTP authentication & authorization
Creating reCAPTCHA servers
OAuth Authorization
Application delivery
Rewriting & redirecting
Compression
Site Publishing (Single sign-on)
Offloaded authentication and optional SSO configuration
Creating an Active Directory (AD) user for FortiWeb - Keytab File
Using Kerberos authentication delegation
Using Form Based Delegation
Caching
What can be cached?
Acceleration
Scripting
Web protection
Blocking known attacks
Connecting to FortiGuard services
Receiving quarantined source IP addresses from FortiGate
False Positive Mitigation for SQL Injection signatures
Configuring action overrides or exceptions to data leak & attack detection signatures
Defining custom data leak & attack signatures
Defeating cipher padding attacks on individually encrypted inputs
Advanced protection
Custom Policy
Defeating cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks
HTTP Security Headers
Protection for Man-in-the-Browser (MiTB) attacks
Creating Man in the Browser (MiTB) Protection Rule
Creating an MiTB protection rule
Protecting the standard user input field
Protecting the passwords
Adding allow list for the AJAX Request
Creating Man in the Browser (MiTB) Protection Policy
URL encryption
Link cloaking
Syntax-based SQL/XSS injection detection
Cookie security
Input validation
Validating parameters (“input rules”)
Preventing tampering with hidden inputs
Limiting file uploads
Web Shell Detection
Protocol constraints
HTTP/HTTPS protocol constraints
WebSocket Protocol
Access control
Restricting access to specific URLs
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) protection
Specifying allowed HTTP methods
ML Based Anomaly Detection
Viewing domain data
Overview
Tree View
Parameter View
Viewing anomaly detection log
Anti-defacement
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Configuring FortiClient EMS Connector for ZTNA
Verifying EMS CA certificate, ZTNA tag, and FortiClient endpoint synchronized from FortiClient EMS
Configuring a ZTNA Profile
Referencing ZTNA profile in a server policy
ZTNA troubleshooting and debugging
Bot mitigation
Configuring threshold based detection
Configuring biometrics based detection
Configuring bot deception
Configuring known bots
Configuring bot mitigation policy
Configuring ML Based Bot Detection policy
Viewing bot detection model status
Viewing the bot detection violations
Exception Policy
API Protection
Configuring JSON protection
Importing JSON schema files
Creating JSON protection rules
Creating JSON protection policy
Configuring XML protection
Importing XML schema files
Creating XML protection rules
Creating XML protection policies
Importing WSDL files
Configuring exempted URLs
Configuring attack logs to retain packet payloads for XML protection
Creating WS-Security rules
OpenAPI Validation
Use cases
Creating OpenAPI files
Creating OpenAPI validation policies
Configuring mobile API protection
API gateway
Managing API users
Configuring API gateway policy
Configuring API gateway rules
Configuring ML Based API Protection policy
Viewing API Protection domain data
Editing and viewing machine learning models for API paths
DoS protection
DoS prevention
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IP Protection
GEO IP - Blocklisting & whitelisting countries & regions
IP List - Blocklisting & whitelisting clients using a source IP or source IP range
IP Reputation - Blocklisting source IPs with poor reputation
Tracking
Compliance
Authorization
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Vulnerability scans
Administrators
Configuring access profiles
Grouping remote authentication queries and certificates for administrators
Changing an administrator’s password
Certificate-based Web UI login
Advanced/optional system settings
Changing the FortiWeb appliance’s host name
Fail-to-wire for power loss/reboots
Customizing error and authentication pages (replacement messages)
Configuring machine-learning URL replacer policy
Configuring the integrated firewall
Network address translation (NAT)
Advanced settings
Backup & restore
Dashboard
FortiView
Topology
Security
Traffic
Sessions
Monitoring your system
Logging
Analyzing attack logs in FortiWeb Cloud Threat Analytics
Alert email
SNMP traps & queries
Reports
Debug log
Monitoring currently blocked IPs
Monitoring currently tracked clients
FortiGuard updates
Vulnerability scans
Security Fabric
External connectors
AWS Connector
Azure Connector
OCI Connector
Fabric Connector: Single Sign On with FortiGate
Fine-tuning & best practices
Hardening security
Improving performance
Improving fault tolerance
Reducing false positives
Regular backups
Downloading logs in RAM before shutdown or reboot
Troubleshooting
Introduction
Troubleshooting outline
Diagnosing server-policy connectivity issues
Diagnosing Network Connectivity Issues
Checking hardware connections
Examining the ARP table
Checking routing
Examining the routing table
Checking port assignments
Performing a packet trace
Debugging the packet processing flow
Diagnosing server-policy access issues
Server-policy access failure
Server policy intermittently inaccessible
Server-policy outage
Checking backend server status & issues
Diagnosing debug flow
Error codes displayed when visiting server policy
Visiting Server-Policy Has Long Response Time
Checking Attack/Traffic/Event logs
FAQ
How to check attack logs in FortiWeb
How to check traffic logs in FortiWeb
Forwarding non-HTTP/HTTPS traffic
Diagnosing system issues
System boot-up issues
Hard disk corruption or failure
Power supply failure
System login & authentication issues
FAQ
Login common issues
WebUI authentication issues
Certificate-based WebUI login failure
Resetting passwords
SAML SSO Login issues
System license issues
Firmware upgrade failures
DB version&update info
Cryptographic Key
Resetting the configuration
Restoring firmware (“clean install”)
Checking System Resource Issues
Checking CPU information&Issues
Checking memory usage
Diagnosing memory leak issues
Checking disk information & issues
Retrieving system&debug logs
Retrieving system logs in backend system
Customizing&downloading debug logs
Diagnose Crash & Coredump issues
Common troubleshooting steps
Checking core files and basic coredump information
Collecting core/coredump files and logs
What to do when coredump files are truncated or damaged
Diagnose software function issues
Server policy
FAQ
SSL/TLS
FAQ
Diagnosing SSL/TLS handshake failures
Decrypting SSL packets to analyze traffic issues
Enabling diagnose debug flow to retrieve TLS Pre-master secrets
Decrypting TLS 1.2/1.1/1.0 Traffic
Decrypting TLS 1.3 Traffic
An alternative way to decrypt TLS traffic on Windows PC
Application Delivery - URL Rewriting
Application Delivery - Site Publish
FAQ
Troubleshoot Site-Publish Issues
Application Delivery - Caching
FAQ
Troubleshoot for caching issues
Application Delivery - Lua Script
FAQ
Web Protection - General Issues
FAQ
Web Protection - Known Attack
FAQ
Web Protection - Advanced Protection
FAQ
Web Protection - Input Validation
FAQ
Web Protection - Bot Mitigation
FAQ
Web Protection - API Protection
FAQ
Web Protection - IP Protection
FAQ
Machine Learning - Anomaly Detection
FAQ
Machine learning trouble-shooting
ZTNA troubleshooting and debugging
HA issues
FAQ
HA trouble-shooting
Log&Report issues
Common troubleshooting methods for issues that Logs cannot be displayed on GUI
Step-by-step troubleshooting for log display on FortiWeb GUI failures
Logs cannot be displayed on FortiAnalyzer
Replacement message
FAQ
Diagnose hardware issues
Using diagnose commands
Diagnosing Power Supply issues
Diagnosing hard disk issues
Diagnosing SSL Card issues
Diagnosing NIC issues
System tools & diagnose commands
Diagnostic Commands
Execute Commands
Ping & Traceroute
Packet capture
Packet capture via CLI command
Packet capture via Web UI
Diff
Run backend-shell commands
Upload a file to or download a file from FortiWeb
Appendix A: Port numbers
Appendix B: Maximum configuration values
Appendix C: FortiWeb-VM licenses
Appendix D: Supported RFCs, W3C, & IEEE standards
Appendix E: Regular expressions
Appendix F: How to purchase and renew FortiGuard licenses
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Table of Contents
Introduction
What's new
Key concepts
Workflow
Sequence of scans
IPv6 support
Solutions for specific web attacks
HTTP/2 support
HTTP sessions & security
FortiWeb high availability (HA)
Administrative domains (ADOMs)
How to use the web UI
Shutdown
How to set up your FortiWeb
Appliance vs. VMware
Registering your FortiWeb
Planning the network topology
Connecting to the web UI or CLI
Updating the firmware
Changing the “admin” account password
Setting the system time & date
Setting the operation mode
Feature visibility
Configuring High Availability (HA) basic settings
HA heartbeat & active node election
Synchronization
Replicating the configuration without FortiWeb HA (external HA)
Configuring the network settings
Configuring DNS settings
Configuring HA settings specifically for active-passive and standard active-active modes
Configuring HA settings specifically for high volume active-active mode
Defining your web servers & load balancers
Protected web servers vs. allowed/protected host names
Defining your protected/allowed HTTP “Host:” header names
Defining your web servers
Defining your proxies, clients, & X-headers
Defining your network services
Configuring virtual servers on your FortiWeb
Enabling or disabling traffic forwarding to your servers
Configuring FortiWeb to receive traffic via WCCP
Configuring basic policies
Testing your installation
Switching out of Offline Protection mode
Policies
How operation mode affects server policy behavior
Configuring the global object allow list
Configuring the allow list at server policy level
Configuring a protection profile for inline topologies
Generating a protection profile using scanner reports
Configuring a protection profile for an out-of-band topology or asynchronous mode of operation
Configuring client management
Configuring a server policy
Configuring traffic mirror
ADFS Proxy
Configuring FortiWeb as an ADFS proxy
Configuring a virtual server
Creating an ADFS server pool
Uploading trusted CA certificates
Creating an ADFS server policy
Troubleshooting
Configuring FTP security
Creating an FTP command restriction rule
Creating an FTP file check rule
Configuring an FTP security inline profile
Creating an FTP server pool
Creating an FTP server policy
Secure connections (SSL/TLS)
Offloading vs. inspection
Supported cipher suites & protocol versions
CA certificates
How to offload or inspect HTTPS
Local certificates
Let's Encrypt certificates
Using session keys provided by an HSM
Generating a certificate signing request
Uploading a server certificate
Forcing clients to use HTTPS
HTTP Public Key Pinning
How to apply PKI client authentication (personal certificates)
Seamless PKI integration
Revoking certificates
How to export/back up certificates & private keys
How to change FortiWeb's default certificate
Configuring OCSP stapling
Users
Authentication styles
Offloading HTTP authentication & authorization
Creating reCAPTCHA servers
OAuth Authorization
Application delivery
Rewriting & redirecting
Compression
Site Publishing (Single sign-on)
Offloaded authentication and optional SSO configuration
Creating an Active Directory (AD) user for FortiWeb - Keytab File
Using Kerberos authentication delegation
Using Form Based Delegation
Caching
What can be cached?
Acceleration
Scripting
Web protection
Blocking known attacks
Connecting to FortiGuard services
Receiving quarantined source IP addresses from FortiGate
False Positive Mitigation for SQL Injection signatures
Configuring action overrides or exceptions to data leak & attack detection signatures
Defining custom data leak & attack signatures
Defeating cipher padding attacks on individually encrypted inputs
Advanced protection
Custom Policy
Defeating cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks
HTTP Security Headers
Protection for Man-in-the-Browser (MiTB) attacks
Creating Man in the Browser (MiTB) Protection Rule
Creating an MiTB protection rule
Protecting the standard user input field
Protecting the passwords
Adding allow list for the AJAX Request
Creating Man in the Browser (MiTB) Protection Policy
URL encryption
Link cloaking
Syntax-based SQL/XSS injection detection
Cookie security
Input validation
Validating parameters (“input rules”)
Preventing tampering with hidden inputs
Limiting file uploads
Web Shell Detection
Protocol constraints
HTTP/HTTPS protocol constraints
WebSocket Protocol
Access control
Restricting access to specific URLs
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) protection
Specifying allowed HTTP methods
ML Based Anomaly Detection
Viewing domain data
Overview
Tree View
Parameter View
Viewing anomaly detection log
Anti-defacement
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Configuring FortiClient EMS Connector for ZTNA
Verifying EMS CA certificate, ZTNA tag, and FortiClient endpoint synchronized from FortiClient EMS
Configuring a ZTNA Profile
Referencing ZTNA profile in a server policy
ZTNA troubleshooting and debugging
Bot mitigation
Configuring threshold based detection
Configuring biometrics based detection
Configuring bot deception
Configuring known bots
Configuring bot mitigation policy
Configuring ML Based Bot Detection policy
Viewing bot detection model status
Viewing the bot detection violations
Exception Policy
API Protection
Configuring JSON protection
Importing JSON schema files
Creating JSON protection rules
Creating JSON protection policy
Configuring XML protection
Importing XML schema files
Creating XML protection rules
Creating XML protection policies
Importing WSDL files
Configuring exempted URLs
Configuring attack logs to retain packet payloads for XML protection
Creating WS-Security rules
OpenAPI Validation
Use cases
Creating OpenAPI files
Creating OpenAPI validation policies
Configuring mobile API protection
API gateway
Managing API users
Configuring API gateway policy
Configuring API gateway rules
Configuring ML Based API Protection policy
Viewing API Protection domain data
Editing and viewing machine learning models for API paths
DoS protection
DoS prevention
Preventing slow and low attacks
IP Protection
GEO IP - Blocklisting & whitelisting countries & regions
IP List - Blocklisting & whitelisting clients using a source IP or source IP range
IP Reputation - Blocklisting source IPs with poor reputation
Tracking
Compliance
Authorization
Preventing data leaks
Vulnerability scans
Administrators
Configuring access profiles
Grouping remote authentication queries and certificates for administrators
Changing an administrator’s password
Certificate-based Web UI login
Advanced/optional system settings
Changing the FortiWeb appliance’s host name
Fail-to-wire for power loss/reboots
Customizing error and authentication pages (replacement messages)
Configuring machine-learning URL replacer policy
Configuring the integrated firewall
Network address translation (NAT)
Advanced settings
Backup & restore
Dashboard
FortiView
Topology
Security
Traffic
Sessions
Monitoring your system
Logging
Analyzing attack logs in FortiWeb Cloud Threat Analytics
Alert email
SNMP traps & queries
Reports
Debug log
Monitoring currently blocked IPs
Monitoring currently tracked clients
FortiGuard updates
Vulnerability scans
Security Fabric
External connectors
AWS Connector
Azure Connector
OCI Connector
Fabric Connector: Single Sign On with FortiGate
Fine-tuning & best practices
Hardening security
Improving performance
Improving fault tolerance
Reducing false positives
Regular backups
Downloading logs in RAM before shutdown or reboot
Troubleshooting
Introduction
Troubleshooting outline
Diagnosing server-policy connectivity issues
Diagnosing Network Connectivity Issues
Checking hardware connections
Examining the ARP table
Checking routing
Examining the routing table
Checking port assignments
Performing a packet trace
Debugging the packet processing flow
Diagnosing server-policy access issues
Server-policy access failure
Server policy intermittently inaccessible
Server-policy outage
Checking backend server status & issues
Diagnosing debug flow
Error codes displayed when visiting server policy
Visiting Server-Policy Has Long Response Time
Checking Attack/Traffic/Event logs
FAQ
How to check attack logs in FortiWeb
How to check traffic logs in FortiWeb
Forwarding non-HTTP/HTTPS traffic
Diagnosing system issues
System boot-up issues
Hard disk corruption or failure
Power supply failure
System login & authentication issues
FAQ
Login common issues
WebUI authentication issues
Certificate-based WebUI login failure
Resetting passwords
SAML SSO Login issues
System license issues
Firmware upgrade failures
DB version&update info
Cryptographic Key
Resetting the configuration
Restoring firmware (“clean install”)
Checking System Resource Issues
Checking CPU information&Issues
Checking memory usage
Diagnosing memory leak issues
Checking disk information & issues
Retrieving system&debug logs
Retrieving system logs in backend system
Customizing&downloading debug logs
Diagnose Crash & Coredump issues
Common troubleshooting steps
Checking core files and basic coredump information
Collecting core/coredump files and logs
What to do when coredump files are truncated or damaged
Diagnose software function issues
Server policy
FAQ
SSL/TLS
FAQ
Diagnosing SSL/TLS handshake failures
Decrypting SSL packets to analyze traffic issues
Enabling diagnose debug flow to retrieve TLS Pre-master secrets
Decrypting TLS 1.2/1.1/1.0 Traffic
Decrypting TLS 1.3 Traffic
An alternative way to decrypt TLS traffic on Windows PC
Application Delivery - URL Rewriting
Application Delivery - Site Publish
FAQ
Troubleshoot Site-Publish Issues
Application Delivery - Caching
FAQ
Troubleshoot for caching issues
Application Delivery - Lua Script
FAQ
Web Protection - General Issues
FAQ
Web Protection - Known Attack
FAQ
Web Protection - Advanced Protection
FAQ
Web Protection - Input Validation
FAQ
Web Protection - Bot Mitigation
FAQ
Web Protection - API Protection
FAQ
Web Protection - IP Protection
FAQ
Machine Learning - Anomaly Detection
FAQ
Machine learning trouble-shooting
ZTNA troubleshooting and debugging
HA issues
FAQ
HA trouble-shooting
Log&Report issues
Common troubleshooting methods for issues that Logs cannot be displayed on GUI
Step-by-step troubleshooting for log display on FortiWeb GUI failures
Logs cannot be displayed on FortiAnalyzer
Replacement message
FAQ
Diagnose hardware issues
Using diagnose commands
Diagnosing Power Supply issues
Diagnosing hard disk issues
Diagnosing SSL Card issues
Diagnosing NIC issues
System tools & diagnose commands
Diagnostic Commands
Execute Commands
Ping & Traceroute
Packet capture
Packet capture via CLI command
Packet capture via Web UI
Diff
Run backend-shell commands
Upload a file to or download a file from FortiWeb
Appendix A: Port numbers
Appendix B: Maximum configuration values
Appendix C: FortiWeb-VM licenses
Appendix D: Supported RFCs, W3C, & IEEE standards
Appendix E: Regular expressions
Appendix F: How to purchase and renew FortiGuard licenses