hmmm very strange. what is the cron job for/doing? Also what indicators do you have that indicate that bwps is blocking wget and not a server setting doing it?
The cron-job is used to do the scheduling tasks like posting and backup…entirely replacing the wp-cron as substitute because it was causing overload on server.
Well, according to the host it has something to do with this added to the .htaccess from Better WP Security:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [NC,OR]
So my question is how to block this from happening…or which settings should I check/uncheck for this rule?
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [NC,OR]
Thanks any help.
You could remove RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget [NC,OR] from the .htaccess file and that would allow you to use wget.
Another solution that was pitched to me (although I’m not familiar with it) is Lynx.
Its said to be safer than wget but depending on what the cron task is doing it may or may not work.
you can read more about it and grab the needed install files from here:
http://kb.iu.edu/data/afik.html <- info
http://lynx.isc.org/release/ <- install files
