Affecting multiple websites?

  • Resolved davidsavill

    (@davidsavill)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    I’ve installed the Wordfence plugin on what is my primary domain for my hosting,

    I have another website as an addon (which is inside a new folder in public_html)

    On the addon WordPress website, I didn’t install the Wordfence plugin, however, when I’m trying to save settings to WP Super Cache, I’m getting a 403 error saying it’s from Wordfence :-/

    Any ideas whats going on with that?

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  • wfyann

    (@wfyann)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @davidsavill,

    Does the issue persist if you temporarily switch the Firewall Status to “Learning Mode“?

    Thread Starter davidsavill

    (@davidsavill)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    I’m not sure whats happening with me posting in forums lately, my posts dont seem to be posting, even though they look like they are at the time. Very frustrating, think Ill be shaping Safari for Chrome.

    Anyway sorry I posted a couple of days ago exactly that,

    When on the other site I put Wordfence into learning mode, on this site I can suddenly save settings.

    So technically… Does this mean I only need Wordfence on the primary domain?! and not on any of my add-on domains? even if they’re separate websites?

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by davidsavill.
    wfyann

    (@wfyann)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @davidsavill,

    The main site will only affect the second one if the Firewall is in “Extended Protection“.

    It will only provide partial protection –some parts depend on paths in the site where the Wordfence Firewall is installed, so automatic whitelisting and some firewall rules won’t work properly on the second site, unless it has its own copy of Wordfence installed, with the Firewall also using Extended Protection.

    If you wish to force the Wordfence Firewall installed on the primary domain to completely ignore what happens in the subdir, you need to place a “.user.ini” file containing a “auto_prepend_file = none” directive in the said subdomain.

    For full protection you’ll need to install Wordfence on the second site and optimize the Firewall for that instance.

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