WordPress Joe

Gerroald,

I expected a request for a list of what other plugins I’m using to see if there might be a combination of elements causing this issue. I’m a little surprised that this never happened.

I’m a PC tech and I know that unexpected software results can often be caused by a combination of applications installed and interacting unintentionally with each other (historically firewalls and AntiVirus programs are most common examples of this).

Maybe web/PHP based applications/plugins don’t suffer from this sort of interactivity?

I’d rather not share a full list of plugins in use here (13 of them), but, I’d be happy to forward a list to the Dev if asked via our existing email thread if that might help with debug.

404 detection is turned on, honestly I have a hard time interpreting the 404 errors logged, none of the details come up when I check a specific 404 error. So I can’t tell how many times a host is hitting a particular page that triggers a 404.

I can tell you that the only banned hosts are ones that I manually put in. So that implies to me that 404 banning isn’t working. I would expect the program to add entries to the Ban Hosts table once they trigger a ban or lockout. I’ve got to believe given the number of fake admin login attempts that I’m seeing in the logs that the ‘bots would also be probing for pages with vulnerabilites, and therefore creating enough 404’s to trigger a block.

Maybe I’m misinterpreting how the 404 feature would work and perhaps it doesn’t manually add hosts to the Ban Hosts table though.

Nothing since the request for the bug report. But, there since 2 of the 3 days since then were Saturday and Sunday, I’m not feeling abandoned yet. Hoping to have something back from the Dev/Author by the end of the week.

Gerrroald,

I filed one yesterday. You’ve sent me email. I’ve just replied and included an attachment as per your request.

Let me know how I can help you out further, I really like what you are trying to do with this plugin and want to help it succeed.

– WP Joe