Syncing RunCloud and Cloudflare firewalls for fail2ban IPs
This guide looks at adding a proxied Cloudflare service to a server set up with RunCloud and fail2ban with a WordPress jail conf set up. Once you start using Cloudflare as a CDN solution for your hosting, you are adding another firewall into the equation, albeit a very good one, but you may want to…
Read MoreBlock xmlrpc.php WordPress running on OpenLiteSpeed using .htaccess
You can block the xmlrpc.php WordPress file when running on OpenLiteSpeed by adding a rewrite rule in the .htaccess file. This will reduce the brute force threat of bots making multiple resource requests. Add to your webroot .htaccess file either add it in a mod_rewrite existing block or add a new one: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteRule…
Read MoreAdd a Manual Warm Up Cache / Cache Crawler to LiteSpeed Cache
In caching plugins normally pages are typically served from a cache after a visitor does an initial view then a cached copy of the page is served up to subsequent visitors via the cache who have faster viewing page loads. This works well in high traffic sites but if the site is more a brochure…
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