Falcon Engine issue with GPP theme

  • Resolved bsheahan

    (@bsheahan)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve been a very happy Wordfence free user for several months now. It’s an amazing addition to two WP sites I run. Nothing but praise, here.

    I did experience a little issue which I believe was initiated by using the new WF 5.0.1 Falcon Engine that I thought I’d mention here in case others experience the same problem.

    Again, I *believe* it was due to enabling the new Wordfence Falcon Engine to speed up cache performance on my site, but I don’t want to sound any alarm bells here, so this is simply a post to describe my experience.

    After activating the Falcon Engine to better cache my site, I noticed that I was getting website loop timeout errors whenever I accessed a page on my WP blog other than the main page. In other words, my About page, my Archives page and the individual blog posts pages wouldn’t load and I would get a loop error message in several browsers I tested on, on two different computers.

    Because Wordfence so wonderfully provided a means to backup my .htaccess file prior to enabling Falcon Engine, I was able to turn off the Wordfence caching and then restore full functionality to my blog by using my Yoast SEO plugin to edit the .htaccess file with the backed up version that Wordfence downloaded for me just prior to Falcon Engine installation.

    I will mention that I’m using the GraphPaperPress Full Frame WP template, which may have some incompatibility with the new Falcon Engine, although enabling the Falcon Engine on a second WP site I admin, hosted elsewhere, using the same Full Frame theme, seems to be unaffected.

    This is by no means a complaint or meant to disparage Wordfence. As I mentioned at the top, I think it’s a brilliant plugin for anyone running a WP site. I just wanted to add my experience here with my own issue in case anyone had a similar issue and was looking for a solution.

    I may try turning back on Wordfence basic caching again to try it out, but right now I want to make sure everything is back up and running properly for a few days before doing any more experimenting.

    I remain a huge fan of the Wordfence team and am grateful for their efforts.

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  • Plugin Author Wordfence Security

    (@mmaunder)

    Thanks for the comprehensive feedback.

    If you do decide to enable Falcon again and you see these symptoms, it would be very helpful if you could share your .htaccess file with us before you restore the backed up version. I’d like to see how Falcon modified it and what else you have in there that may cause problems. That way we can build in compatibility for your specific scenario. You can email your htaccess to genbiz @wordfence.com if you do decide to try this in future and we’ll investigate.

    Thanks.

    Mark.

    Thread Starter bsheahan

    (@bsheahan)

    Hello Mark! I will email you what I have. Thank you for the incredibly fast response here. I know you’re primarily concerned with the subscription support requests, so it was kind of you to respond here.

    Billy

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