Firewall setup

  • Resolved Jan Zeman

    (@janzeman)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    I tried to setup the Wordfence Firewall and the plugin encoured me to contact you here in the forum, so I am doing that…

    I am not sure how to continue, resp. what the consequences of my actions could be. Not being web expert I was able to set up the whole site myself but being asked whether I am familiar with “C:\PHP56-FastCGI\init.php” I must say I never met that file in my life 😉

    That file must be sitting on my provider’s Windows server, shared by many hosted web application, mine one of them. As indicating it is Windows/IIS setup.

    The “Override this value” option sounds danger so I tend to click “Include this file (Recommended)” button but I can nowhere see any exact explanation why, what and whether there is any risk involved. Why is there even the “Override this value” button? Does it mean override anything in the shared “C:\PHP56-FastCGI\init.php” file? That would not probably allowed by my provider and could be danger for X other hosted apps. So I understand it the way that “Include this file (Recommended)” option means only change in ‘my space’, ‘my sandbox’.

    In short: Should I press the blue button now???

    Thank you in advance.

    Best regards
    Jan

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  • wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Jan,
    Everything should be okay by clicking the recommended option “Include this file”, the firewall setup will include this file for you which should maintain your site’s current functionality.

    I suggest getting in contact with your web host before choosing “Override this value” if you decided doing that for any reason, they should be able to let you know the consequences of doing this, but for now, you can just click on “Include this file” button.

    Thanks.

    Thread Starter Jan Zeman

    (@janzeman)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    thanks a lot for your reply. OK, I will go for this option. To be honest I still do not see the motivation why I should experiment with “override this value”.

    “Include this file” will quite definitely not have any possible impact on other webs – that is for sure. On my web… Can anything go wrong? Could it slow down its response times? Recently I had problems with performance so I am very careful here. In general after I click the button, is there any option how to revert such a move? I am 99% sure all will be fine but just to be close to 100%… 😉

    Best regards
    Jan

    wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    No, there should not be any noticeable performance degradation due to choosing this option, and yes, there is an option to manually disable the “Extended Protection” on the firewall page.

    Only in case you no longer want to prepend this “init.php” any more, you can choose “override this value”, that’s why I suggested contacting your web host before doing this.

    Thanks.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by wfalaa.
    Thread Starter Jan Zeman

    (@janzeman)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    I see, perfect. Thank you very much again!!!

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