Title: Blocking iOS WordPress App
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Blocking iOS WordPress App

 *  [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ios-wordpress-app/)
 * Does Wordfence block the WordPress iOS app in certain configurations? SOmeone
   mentioned that [here](https://ios.forums.wordpress.org/topic/app-blocking-plugin-list)
   and I am having issues posting from the iOS WordPress app to my site at the moment
   so I am trying to figure out what the cause might be.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ios-wordpress-app/#post-5849073)
 * I see xmlrpc access allowed in error logs:
    `[Sun Mar 01 02:35:25 2015] [error][
   client xx.xxx.1.2] ModSecurity: Access allowed (phase 2). Matched phrase "wp-
   iphone" at REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent. [file "/dh/apache2/template/etc/mod_sec2/
   999_dreamhost_request_limits.conf"] [line "2"] [id "999000"] [hostname "domain.
   com"] [uri "/xmlrpc.php"] [unique_id "id-number"]` But my post updated on my 
   iPhone gets errors when I try to update the draft. So I am still blocked even
   though the eror log states it is allowed. I prefer not to turn off mod_secrutiy,
   but I might. Does seem to mean this is not WordFence related though.
 *  [Mika Epstein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu-dh/)
 * (@ipstenu-dh)
 * DreamHost Rep
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ios-wordpress-app/#post-5849235)
 * wp-iphone isn’t something that the WordPress iphone app actually sends. Also 
   we white listed that app at DreamPress, so unless you were actually posting at
   2am, that’s probably not it.
 * Do you have a ticket open at DreamHost? I can take a look here if you;’d like
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ios-wordpress-app/#post-5849358)
 * [@ipstenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/). Opened a ticket at 
   Dreamhost now as well. Mentioned this issue in a ticket with multiple issues.
   If you can take a look at it great as they are all WordPress related. Once the
   WordPress iOS app issue are solved I will post back here too.
 *  [Mika Epstein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu-dh/)
 * (@ipstenu-dh)
 * DreamHost Rep
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ios-wordpress-app/#post-5849364)
 * Awesome!
 * I found your ticket and I’m replying there. The IP in the example you gave is
   from Bahrain which I suspect isn’t you…
 *  [WFSupport](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfsupport/)
 * (@wfsupport)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ios-wordpress-app/#post-5849365)
 * [@ipstenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) So is this a wordfence
   issue or is this something that can be addressed at DH?
 * tim
 *  Thread Starter [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * (@rhand)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ios-wordpress-app/#post-5849371)
 * [@ipstenu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) Thanks. Yes, Bahrain
   is me. It is where I am based at the moment

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## Tags

 * [wordpress for ios](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-for-ios/)
 * [xmlrpc](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xmlrpc/)

 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Rhand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhand/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-ios-wordpress-app/#post-5849371)
 * Status: not resolved