permanent ban not working

  • Hi,

    I keep getting lockout notifications for this particular IP address, i get a lockout notification for it about once every day or two. In the email notification it says that this IP has been added to the permanent ban list but its obviously not working because i keep getting notifications that this IP address is being locked out.

    If this IP address was being permanently banned wouldnt they be blocked from trying to access my website?

    I have put the IP address in the Ban Hosts and Ban user agents list but still this IP is still attempting to login,

    im really confused, is iThemes not working properly? or am i misinterpreting what iThemes means by permanent ban?

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  • Do you use Apache or Nginx web server?

    Thread Starter Julian Fox (greataussiepie)

    (@greataussiepie)

    I am using Litespeed – iv only been using it for 6 months, used to use apache, iv never really noticed a difference.

    Server Type: LiteSpeed
    Operating System: Linux
    Browser Compression Supported: gzip,deflate,sdch

    Thread Starter Julian Fox (greataussiepie)

    (@greataussiepie)

    I feel a bit silly, but i had ‘Remove file writing permissions’ checked under ‘File Writing Permissions’ – This is funnily sort of in conflict with the Global settings ‘Allow iThemes Security to write to wp-config.php and .htaccess.’

    im not sure how iThemes would go about fixing that, not super important but it is a minor conflict bug, maybe by adding a little info box that pops up when it is checked warning it may cause the permissions to change unexpectedly, because i thought wordpress would still be able to re-write .htaccess but remove file writing permissions stops anyone and everything. i fixed my issue by unchecking ‘Remove file writing permissions’ – hopefully this isnt a security issue because this particular setting only applies to logged in users.

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