Mark Maunder
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Hi Bogdan?
Can you give me an example? Show me an example of a URL you want to exclude.
Regards,
Mark.
Hi David,
I think you mean Wordfence 5.0.3? Is that right?
This means you need to check the config option on the options page for WF where it says “how does wordfence get an IP address” and change that. Try the REMOTE_ADDR setting first and then generate a few hits on your site and check if it works.
Regards,
Mark.
OK so what appears to be happening here is that we’re sending the gzipped version of your page but the web server is misunderstanding it and probably double compressing it.
I think the way we can fix this is to give you the option to disable gzip compression within Falcon which will mean that your server will do some extra work to compress each page, but it will still be super fast. The alternative is to leave Falcon creating gzip compressed pages but figure out why your server is double encoding it.
Any thoughts on this? Are you able to send me your apache config file? Are you running anything in front of your server e.g. Nginx or Varnish?
Regards,
Mark.
How did you get Wordfence to write the permissions to your .htaccess initially? Did you change the permissions to allow your web server to write to it? Or did you change the file ownership?
Whatever you did, you need to change it back to that to disable caching.
Let me know.
Regards,
Mark.
OK thanks for that. @sstillwell if youd like to work with us to get it working on your config, drop me an email with a repost of your first message here to genbiz@wordfence.com and I’ll work with you to get this implemented. We don’t usually give priority support to free members, but this is a feature that many would like so I’d like to work with someone with your config to get Falcon working for you. So it’ll be more effective to do that using our ticketing system.
@trogau You can do the same if you’re using Nginx but include your full config and tell me what is actually executing PHP (because Nginx doesn’t execute PHP on it’s own).
Both of you include a link to this post so I know who you are.
Regards,
Mark.
Hi,
I want to confirm that you conducted the test I asked you to do correctly.
So you managed to get yourself locked out from login using a disposable IP address, correct?
Then you immediately logged into the site and you didn’t see that IP listed under locked out IP’s?
Regards,
Mark.
Thanks, I took another look at it.
You have a lot of rules in the htaccess that are not generated by us. I’ve looked through our rules and confirmed they were written correctly and there’s nothing there that would generate a 403.
Looks like there are a few rules below ours that are related to 403 errors and that may be the issue.
In the htaccess you sent me everything below the line:
# END WordPress
Is not generated by us, so I’d investigate whatever is generating those rules.
Regards,
Mark.
Hi,
We’ve put out a few new versions since this was posted. Can you confirm that you’ve upgraded to the newest and that you’re still seeing the error? If so post the error because the line number would have changed.
Regards,
Mark.
Entering the following pattern into the user-agent field in advanced blocking should do it:
*MSIE 6.0*
Test this and let me know how it goes.
Regards,
Mark.
Glad you like Wordfence and that solved this.
Regards,
Mark.
Hi there,
It’s probably not us specifically, it’s just that we happen to be one of the more complex plugins you run which consume some memory. Please have your hosting provider check your error logs and they will probably show that you’re running out of memory.
If this is not the case, let me know, but a white screen is usually indicative of running out of memory.
Regards,
Mark.
Yes it’s a good way to look at the initial load time which is what Falcon improves. So look at the top URL that appears on Pingdom’s results before and after you have falcon installed and you should see a massive improvement. Remember that you have to load the URL at least once for it to cache, every request after that will be wicked fast.
Regards,
Mark.
Could it be that we’re simply not finding the .htaccess because of the existing subdirectory bug?
Regards,
Mark.
Hi,
Yes live traffic still works with falcon off.
OK we’re going to decouple how we block IP’s from whether you have caching enabled or not. So you can choose how you want to block IP addresses. Will be in the next release.
Regards,
Mark.