SafeLine

SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

⭐ 22,938 stars on GitHub · 🍴 1,571 forks · 📜 License: gpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Go

What is SafeLine?

A standout opensource self-host project on GitHub — host on your own server for full control over your data and costs.

Main components

• Block Web Attacks
• It defenses for all of web attacks, such as SQL injection, XSS, code injection, os command injection, CRLF injection, XXE, SSRF, path traversal and so on.
• Rate Limiting
• Defend your web apps against DoS attacks, bruteforce attempts, traffic surges, and other types of abuse by throttling traffic that exceeds defined limits.
• Anti-Bot Challenge
• Anti-Bot challenges to protect your website from bot attacks, human users will be allowed, crawlers and bots will be blocked.
• Authentication Challenge
• When authentication challenge turned on, visitors need to enter the password, otherwise they will be blocked.

The biggest strength is active opensource community — fast bug fixes, regular features, no abandonment risk.

Best for self-host enthusiasts wanting to try a strong-community opensource project.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ api-gateway
• 🏷️ application-security
• 🏷️ appsec
• 🏷️ blueteam
• 🏷️ bruteforce
• 🏷️ captcha
• 🏷️ cve
• 🏷️ cybersecurity
• 🏷️ firewall
• 🏷️ hackers

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/chaitin/SafeLine.git
cd SafeLine
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

⚡ Deploy fast on VSIS

Use the VSIS VPS Lite 2GB RAM / 2 vCPU / 25GB SSD (~104k/tháng) plan from VSIS.NET — high-speed VN-based VPS, 24/7 support, ideal for running SafeLine smoothly.

🎯 Benefits:

• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
• Dedicated IPv4, root access, unmetered domestic bandwidth
• Daily snapshot backup
• Free install assistance from the VSIS team

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: chaitin/SafeLine
• 🌐 Homepage: https://ly.cyberserval.tech/d4HFBvC
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 24/10/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.