Title: Disabled firewall settings
Last modified: September 7, 2023

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# Disabled firewall settings

 *  Resolved [sarchiappone45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarchiappone45/)
 * (@sarchiappone45)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-firewall-settings/)
 * Hello everybody!
   I am writing to you because a few days ago this writing appeared
   on the WordPress dashboard (backend) in my web site:
 * Important: Disabled firewall settings
 * The All in One Security plugin has deactivated some of the firewall settings 
   that you had activated.
 * We have upgraded the following settings so that they are now part of the PHP 
   firewall instead of .htaccess directives:
    - Completely block xmlrpc.php
    - Forbid proxy comment posting
    - Deny bad query strings
    - Advanced character filter
 * What would you like to do?
 * Reactivate? – Keep deactivated? – Configure manually?
 * What is the best solution?
   Thank you very muchA nice dayAndrew
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fdisabled-firewall-settings%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [aporter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aporter/)
 * (@aporter)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-firewall-settings/#post-17035102)
 * Hi,
 * Sorry about the delay.
   In the past we have had issues where users had .htaccess
   features turned on, but they did not work on their server.So by turning it on
   they had unknowingly blocked them selves from accessing their own site, but the
   feature did not work so they did not notice anything.Then when we upgraded the
   rule from htaccess to PHP so that it works on all servers they were suddenly 
   locked out.To prevent this we started to temporarily turn the features off.So
   you will want to turn the features on, then in another browser device check you
   can still access your site, if you can then theres nothing more to do.Best Wishes,
   Ashley
 *  Thread Starter [sarchiappone45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarchiappone45/)
 * (@sarchiappone45)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-firewall-settings/#post-17035171)
 * Dear Ashley,
   everything is working well.Thank you very much.A nice weekend!Andrew

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 * Last reply from: [sarchiappone45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarchiappone45/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disabled-firewall-settings/#post-17035171)
 * Status: resolved