Title: PCI compliance reverse proxy issue
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# PCI compliance reverse proxy issue

 *  [stubbscoffee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stubbscoffee/)
 * (@stubbscoffee)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pci-compliance-reverse-proxy-issue/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m trying to get my Website PCI compliant. I seem to keep failing because of
   a reverse proxy detection and I don’t really know what to do. The website is 
   shared hosting through GoDaddy, and because of this there’s access to the WordPress
   server through reverse cacheing/reverse proxy. This can’t be changed by Godaddy
   because of the shared hosting. My website is [http://www.stubbs.coffee](http://www.stubbs.coffee)
   any suggestions would be great. Thanks

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 *  [Tim Nash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tnash/)
 * (@tnash)
 * Spam hunter
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pci-compliance-reverse-proxy-issue/#post-6337578)
 * You are never going to be able to become PCI Compliant on a shared host, as you
   are sharing resources and OS processes with unknown entites i.e other users of
   the host.
 * It’s interesting the scanner (I assume you are using an automated scanner) has
   picked up a proxy, it’s most likely due to the way GoDaddy routes traffic to 
   their shared hosts. Again nothing you can do about it.
 * I’m afraid the answer is move, to a VPS/Dedicated hardware and make sure your
   host is set up to provide PCI compliant services very few are.
 * However you may be able to reduce scope of PCI compliance away from your site,
   by using a payment provider who offers either remotely hosted payment form or
   uses iFrames like Stripe or Braintree.
 * Either way, you are probably best getting advice as getting PCI-DSS compliant
   is not particularly easy or straight forward so where possible it’s best to avoid
   your site being within scope in the first place.

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## Tags

 * [PCI compliance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pci-compliance/)
 * [reverse proxy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reverse-proxy/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pci-compliance-reverse-proxy-issue/#post-6337578)
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