Title: Working with Nginx sever?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Working with Nginx sever?

 *  Resolved [photokulinar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photokulinar/)
 * (@photokulinar)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-nginx-sever/)
 * Some firewall and security plugins are configured using the .htaccess file. For
   example, access to folders.
 * This works in Apache. Not in Nginx: [http://wiki.nginx.org/LikeApache-htaccess](http://wiki.nginx.org/LikeApache-htaccess).
 * Are your plugin use .htaccess? (I found only [http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Advanced_Blocking](http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Advanced_Blocking))
   What about security for sites on Nginx-servers?
 * Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-nginx-sever/#post-6492030)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for the question. We currently support Nginx as a reverse proxy used in
   front of Apache or Nginx with PHP5-FPM.
 * [http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_system_requirements#Web_Server](http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_system_requirements#Web_Server)
 * -Brian
 *  Plugin Author [WFMattR](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfmattr/)
 * (@wfmattr)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-with-nginx-sever/#post-6492049)
 * Additionally, the security features of Wordfence do work without using .htaccess,
   but the Falcon caching engine does depend on it. You can still use the basic 
   caching option (in the Performance Setup menu) without the .htaccess file.

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