Exclude files from scan – what is the format?
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Hello,
Thank you for WordFence & the information on the blog.Say, the documentation does not say what the format is for excluding files from a scan.
For a full directory is it
filefolder
filefolder/
/filefolder/
… are asterisks needed somewhere?This is all the documentation provided:
Exclude files from scan that match these wildcard patterns.
This lets you exclude certain file extensions from your scan. You can use this if Wordfence is getting stuck on large files that you know are not malicious, like certain kinds of backup files.
Thanks
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If you wanted to exlude logs from being scanned you could add this
*log
or
*.log
That should catch logs anywhere as long as they are named in that format.
If there is a particular folder you want to exclude it should be with the path to it. If you wanted to exclude the foo directory in the folder where WordPress was installed, you would add it like this.
foo/*
If foo was installed in the uploads folder you would add it like this
wp-content/uploads/foo/*Does that help?
tim
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