How to include same modsecurity rules in multiple virtual hosts without changing the id for each rule and each host?

Question

I have multiple virtual hosts with Modsecurity enabled. I want to assign multiple OWASP rules (from the base_rules folder) like SQL injection to multiple virtual hosts. I have included them in my virtual host files, but I get the following message when I reload apache:

ModSecurity: Found another rule with the same id Action '-t' failed. 

The Apache error log may have more information.

How can I include these base rules in multiple virtual hosts without changing the id for each rule? The server is meant to proxy to a lot of virtual hosts, so changing the ID for each rule and each host would be a lot of work to do manually.

Answer 1

Including the rules at VHOST level did the trick.
The config which causes the error:

IncludeOptional folder_to_rules/modsecurity_crs_41_xss_attacks.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    SecRuleEngine On

</VirtualHost>

Solution:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName example.com
    SecRuleEngine On
    IncludeOptional folder_to_rules/modsecurity_crs_41_xss_attacks.conf
</VirtualHost>