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A powerful, extensible, and developer-friendly application-level firewall for Laravel 10+.

This package gives your Laravel app real-time protection through:

• 🔒 IP Blacklisting / Whitelisting
• 🌐 CIDR Blocking
• 🚫 Rate Limiting Rule Engine
• 📄 Database Logging of Security Events
• 📊 Beautiful Firewall Dashboard UI
• 📜 Detailed Logs Viewer Page
• 🧱 Plug-and-play Middleware
• ✔ Fully tested using Laravel Testbench

It brings enterprise-level request filtering & monitoring into your Laravel application with minimal configuration.

Installation

composer require pratik-dabhi/laravel-firewall

Publishing

Migrations

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="firewall-migrations"
php artisan migrate

Config

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="firewall-config"

Views

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="firewall-views"

Usage

Register middleware in Laravel 12 (bootstrap/app.php):

->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    $middleware->alias([
        'firewall' => \PratikDabhi\Firewall\Middleware\Firewall::class,
    ]);
})

Protect routes:

Route::middleware(['firewall'])->group(function () {
    Route::get('/', fn() => 'Protected Page');
});

Dashboard routes:

Route::get('/firewall/dashboard', fn() => view('vendor.firewall.dashboard'));
Route::get('/firewall/logs', fn() => view('vendor.firewall.logs'));

Testing

composer test

Credits

• Pratik Dabhi
• All Contributors

License

MIT License.