Apparently the .rule-files array does not handle arbitrary placement nicely. So if the include for it or it comes to early, then stuff like GeoIP or the like is not seen as enabled, even if it is in the config.
This can be reproduced easily by making sure the first item in the config is the include pointing to the rules include.
The best way to fix this is after reading in all the configs and merging them them to one complex hash(or whatever the C equivalent is here), don't process any of the rules files till after the rest of the keys have been handled. Just push entries in it into a array while processing the hash and then once done with everything else process that array and load all the rules. This the rules don't run into any dependency issues.
Apparently the .rule-files array does not handle arbitrary placement nicely. So if the include for it or it comes to early, then stuff like GeoIP or the like is not seen as enabled, even if it is in the config.
This can be reproduced easily by making sure the first item in the config is the include pointing to the rules include.
The best way to fix this is after reading in all the configs and merging them them to one complex hash(or whatever the C equivalent is here), don't process any of the rules files till after the rest of the keys have been handled. Just push entries in it into a array while processing the hash and then once done with everything else process that array and load all the rules. This the rules don't run into any dependency issues.