How to Disable ModSecurity without any Errors

I've enabled Mod_Security on my VPS which runs an Ubuntu OS with an apache web server. Now, I want to disable it because I setup another firewall to protect my server.

I've tried preforming the steps in reverse order (taking out lines of code and disabling modules), but when I try to restart Apache, it keeps saying that it failed to restart.

I've been looking everywhere but I can't find out how to disable the WAF.

Any help would be appreciated!

Solution 1:

A quick search of the interwebs suggests that one of the steps you will have undertaken to enable mod_security is to create the file /etc/modsecurity/modsecurity.conf. To disable modsecurity, all we need to do is remove/rename that file and restart apache.