Warning
AWS WAF Classic support will end on September 30, 2025.
Note
This is AWS WAF Classic documentation. You should only use this version if you created AWS WAF resources, like rules and web ACLs, in AWS WAF prior to November 2019, and you have not migrated them over to the latest version yet. To migrate your web ACLs, see Migrating your AWS WAF Classic resources to AWS WAF.
For the latest version of AWS WAF, see AWS WAF.
You can change a rule by adding or removing conditions.
To add or remove conditions in a rule
Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS WAF console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/wafv2/
. If you see Switch to AWS WAF Classic in the navigation pane, select it.
In the navigation pane, choose Rules.
Choose the name of the rule in which you want to add or remove conditions.
Choose Add rule.
To add a condition, choose Add condition and specify the following values:
- When a request does/does not
If you want AWS WAF Classic to allow or block requests based on the filters in a condition, for example, web requests that originate from the range of IP addresses 192.0.2.0/24, choose does.
If you want AWS WAF Classic to allow or block requests based on the inverse of the filters in a condition, choose does not. For example, if an IP match condition includes the IP address range 192.0.2.0/24 and you want AWS WAF Classic to allow or block requests that do not come from those IP addresses, choose does not.
- match/originate from
Choose the type of condition that you want to add to the rule:
Cross-site scripting match conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the cross-site scripting match condition
IP match conditions – choose originate from an IP address in
Geo match conditions – choose originate from a geographic location in
Size constraint conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the size constraint condition
SQL injection match conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the SQL injection match condition
String match conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the string match condition
Regular expression match conditions – choose match at least one of the filters in the regex match condition
- condition name
Choose the condition that you want to add to the rule. The list displays only conditions of the type that you chose in the preceding step.
To remove a condition, select the X to the right of the condition name
Choose Update.