All in One WordPress Security and subdirectory installation

Hi Stuart, I would complete the settings and then copy the files to the root. Test this and see if all goes well.

Do you mean complete the AIOWPS settings, and configure the website, and then copy the .htaccess and index.php files to root, rather than copying them over before the .htaccess has been modified? If that’s so, would you please explain why you suggest doing that rather than copying the files before completing the settings?

(Personally, I don’t see why it should be necessary to copy the .htaccess to root (just the index.php.) for this set up. But frankly, I just don’t know enough about it and am struggling to understand the role the .htaccess plays in the root in this set up when there is a .htaccess file in the subdirectory and one in each of any other directories in root. In such a set up, I’d have thought the .htaccess in root would override all those in the subdirectories if the root’s one has the more restrictive settings.)

And, if that’s the case, it also begs one of the other questions I asked:’should the content of the two .htaccess files remain the same thereafter?’ For example, if, after copying the index.php and .htaccess files to root, I go on to modify the plugin’s settings again and it deletes some of the .htaccess rules, will this plugin update both .htaccess files so they’re the same?

Also, would you clarify whether or not, or to what extent, this subdirectory install set up is likely to interfere with the plugin’s functionality. Yes, I guess I can eventually figure it out by testing it all for myself, but, being rather short of time and having seen this issue raised before and the promises to investigate it further (in the links above), I’d hoped you might have some findings to share. Two of the support posts refer to what appears to be an issue with the hotlinking. Is this, indeed, an issue? And, are you aware of any others?

Hi, I just checked one of my clients website and I have them set up in a sub-directory like you want to implement with your website. Perhaps my information above was not correct. I copied the .htaccess and the index.php file before I began setting up the website including this plugin. I followed the instructions set out by the link you posted above from www.ads-software.com.

Another words, copy the files as advised in the link you provide above. Then configure this plugin and all should work correctly. In regards to the support thread you posted above that is something the developers will have to look into. That only applies to one part of the plugins configuration.

So, in other words and reading between the lines, so to speak, you don’t really know the answer to my questions then?

I feel like you’re avoiding my questions and what I’m saying here.

First, you say copy the index.php and htaccess files to root after setting up the website and configuring the plugin settings. And then you say perhaps you gave me the wrong information.

Perhaps?

It sounds like you don’t really know, one way or the other, which, I guess, would be okay if you’re not the plugin’s author or developer and were honest about not knowing.

What’s more, could you not recall having set up WordPress with this plugin in a subdirectory, but served from root, when I first asked and before you checked your client’s website? If you’ve done this set up before, and for a client, then as a plugin contributer, and service provider, shouldn’t you know the answers to my questions and whether or not this set up is likely to interfere with any of its functionality? It really is a question about whether or not this plugin’s security functions will all work properly for this setup, which has security implications for your client’s website too!

What’s more, and should be needless to say, I’m aware that the issue about hotlinking only applies to one part of the plugin’s configeration. However, also I asked if it applied to others. Meanwhile, it says in the previous threads I cited that the developers would look into this as far back as up to, or at least, a year ago. Meanwhile, you’re still saying the same a year a later.

Whilst as far as I can tell, this is a great plugin, these responses, I’m sad to say, sound pretty fishy to me.

Sorry if I did not really answer your questions. In regards to the following comment.

What’s more, could you not recall having set up WordPress with this plugin in a subdirectory, but served from root, when I first asked and before you checked your client’s website? If you’ve done this set up before, and for a client, then as a plugin contributer, and service provider, shouldn’t you know the answers to my questions and whether or not this set up is likely to interfere with any of its functionality? It really is a question about whether or not this plugin’s security functions will all work properly for this setup, which has security implications for your client’s website too!

This set up will no interfere with any of its functionality. The plugin’s security will function will work well without a problem based on my experience with my clients set up.

In regards to the following comment.

What’s more, and should be needless to say, I’m aware that the issue about hotlinking only applies to one part of the plugin’s configeration. However, also I asked if it applied to others. Meanwhile, it says in the previous threads I cited that the developers would look into this as far back as up to, or at least, a year ago. Meanwhile, you’re still saying the same a year a later.

I will submit a message the plugin developers in regards to the issue posted in the support thread you mentioned above.

In regards to the following comment.

Whilst as far as I can tell, this is a great plugin, these responses, I’m sad to say, sound pretty fishy to me.

This is a great plugin and as you can see from the reviews and downloading it has a high reputation. Please don’t judge the plugin based on me poorly answering your question above. That is entirely my fault and for that I apologize. I will do my best next time you ask ??

Please feel free to ask more.

Kind regards

I am marking this thread as resolved. No reply in 7 months.

Thank you