maffyew

I’m in the same position as beachlizard, and I do not think his original problem has been resolved the way he was hoping for.

My symptoms:

1. Users attempt to access url’s for which I do not have files. This is resulting in 404’s which I expect to happen. What I then want to happen is for Wordfence to exclude these 404’s from it’s limits.

2. I set up whitelist url rules, such as:
/apple-touch-icon*.png

3. I test by visiting http://www.mydomain.com/apple-touch-icon.png which takes me to my custom 404 page. I visit this url 4 times inside a minute, as per my blocking rule, with the expectation that I will not be blocked. However, I am blocked, and the url is logged as though the whitelist rule did not exist. This is happening on all of the sites I have wordfence installed on. I have no other plugins in play.

To summarize, I’m trying to allow a specific url to 404 as many times as a visitor wishes to visit it, without it getting blocked by Wordfence. I’m attempting to do this using a valid Wordfence URL whitelisting, however Wordfence is ignoring the URL whitelisting and blocking the visitor anyway. Please advise.