I tried using authentication on a XML file but it didn’t protect it, I tried with
/wp-content/uploads/…./file.xml
https://…./wp-content/uploads/…./file.xml

but no luck. Any idea?

Even though there’s no IP in blacklist in IP manager section but My ip gets blocked by ip manager time to time and when deactivate the plugin and check rule table find “Denied by IP manager” idea?

The plugin sounds like just what I need to limit crawling by bad bots. Unfortunately when I try to activate it there seems to be a bug. Pretty sure I have uploaded the files properly and everything, and anyway, this TypeError seems like a code bug.

Wp version is still 4.9.11 (not liking the Gutenberg editor), PHP is 7.

( ! ) Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Return value of Shieldon\Shieldon::setSessionId() must be an instance of Shieldon\void, none returned in /opt/lampstack-7.0.23-0/apache2/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-shieldon/vendor/terrylinooo/shieldon/src/Shieldon/Shieldon.php on line 655
( ! ) TypeError: Return value of Shieldon\Shieldon::setSessionId() must be an instance of Shieldon\void, none returned in /opt/lampstack-7.0.23-0/apache2/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-shieldon/vendor/terrylinooo/shieldon/src/Shieldon/Shieldon.php on line 655
Call Stack
#	Time	Memory	Function	Location
1	0.0001	370624	{main}( )	.../plugins.php:0
2	0.4697	8966248	plugin_sandbox_scrape( )	.../plugins.php:172
3	0.4697	8966664	include( '/opt/lampstack-7.0.23-0/apache2/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-shieldon/wp-shieldon.php' )	.../plugin.php:1897
4	0.4706	9052744	wpso_instance( )	.../wp-shieldon.php:181
5	0.4706	9054216	WPSO_Shieldon_Guardian->__construct( )	.../wpso-helper-functions.php:268
6	0.4707	9061008	Shieldon\Shieldon->__construct( )	.../class-wpso-shieldon.php:38
7	0.4707	9061008	Shieldon\Shieldon->setSessionId( )	.../Shieldon.php:244