Banned Users not banned

  • Hi,

    Following some questionable attempts on a website I’m associated with, I added iThemes Security to the site and listed a few IP addresses to the Banned Users list. However, the following day I received an e-mail notification telling me that there had been an attempted ‘admin’ login from one of the IP addresses I had banned.

    If this is not the purpose of the IP banning, what am I missing?

    Many thanks, love the plugin

    James

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/better-wp-security/

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  • Hey James,

    Could you check your .htaccess to make sure the banned IPs are actually getting written to it?

    Thanks,

    Gerroald

    Thread Starter jamescushing

    (@jamescushing)

    I checked out the .htaccess file and its permissions were set to 440 (odd). I modified it to 604 now but stupidly I went and did this before checking the initial file contents, so the ban rules are in there now but how likely is it iThemes Security wrote this within 2-3 mins of me updating the permissions?

    UPDATE: Checked another site which the same issue was occurring on and despite 604 on the .htaccess file, nothing has been written to it. Seems odd because I have the same security setup in place for both sites, the only difference is the hosting provider…

    Hi i have this issue. iThemes is writing to .htaccess properly but the referral traffic is still showing up. Some guidance on how to resolve this please.

    Thread Starter jamescushing

    (@jamescushing)

    @ithemes-support any update?

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