Whitelist whole directory?

  • Resolved XxUnkn0wnxX

    (@xxunkn0wnxx)


    7 years, 3 months ago

    hi, i am running a forum outside my WordPress install in another directory but wordfence seems to be monitoring that folder as well. it is seriously causing problems when i am in the ACP control panel on my forums. how do i whitelist the whole folder on the wordfence firewall thing so it doesnt monitor it?

    like what do i place in filter url, filter parm & filter IP?

    i need it to whitelist the whole folder, all parameter and ip = all ips

    so /forums + all parameters + 0.0.0.0 (All ips) how would i write this up as a rule in wordfence?

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  • Hi @xxunkn0wnxx,

    Have you tried to temporarily switch the Firewall Status to “Learning Mode“?

    Thread Starter XxUnkn0wnxX

    (@xxunkn0wnxx)

    yes i have but it doesnt seem to whitelist everything, it does like whitelist the template i was editing EG request.body[templateArray][3856]

    but the thing is i have thousands of these templates i also have request.body[templateArray][414]

    those are the only 2 whitelisted, but i want the whole

    /forums/*

    whitelisted with all requests. i don’t want wordfence interfering in the forums folder at all. how do i go about doing this?

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by XxUnkn0wnxX.
    Thread Starter XxUnkn0wnxX

    (@xxunkn0wnxx)

    still no answer?

    ok so if i do /forums/admin.php request.body[] will this whitelist my ACP from this firewall? or is a wildcard needed like request.body[*]?

    Edit: done some testing this did not whitelist anything at all. do you know how long it will take to white list every single parameter one by one… this stupid how you cannot whitelist everything…

    i cannot do the IP thing since my IP changes every couple days…

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by XxUnkn0wnxX.
    • This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by XxUnkn0wnxX.

    Hi @xxunkn0wnxx,

    Sorry about such a delayed response; this is long overdue!

    You can force Wordfence to completely ignore what happens in the sub-folder where the forum is installed by placing a “.user.ini” file with “auto_prepend_file = none” in the said sub-folder. –as discussed in this topic.

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