jd5555

My question is how do I determine if my IP address is on the WOrdfence blocked IP list. I joined a site that is built on WordPress. While trying to complete my profile (unsuccessfully) I started getting 403 Forbidden messages:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

The sysadmin of the site has tried to sort things out on the server, clearing caches and what not, without luck. So I am trying on my own to track down the problem. I know the site uses Wordfence. I would like to know if the message I am seeing is what a visitor from a blocked Wordfence IP address would see, and/or if my IP address is on the Wordfence blacklist.

jd

The symptom in my log files was repeated attempts to access wp-login from the same IP address, which is what I thought BP was intended to address.

I assumed that it was because my site got hammered after I set up BruteProtect, and I thought that BruteProtect would prevent that. The logical reason (to me) was that the access logs on the server indicated that the source of the traffic was a whitelisted IP address, so it made sense that BP would ignore the access attempts.

But per what you say, my assumption was wrong. In which case, any idea as to why BP wouldn’t have blocked an attack?

jd