7G firewall integration

  • Resolved rhisflow

    (@rhisflow)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hi ?? !

    Quick questions:

    1) As far as I understand, if I put Steve Starr’s 7G Firewall directly into the .htaccess, this will essentially do the same like the WordFence core firewall (XSS, Injections, directory traversal, and much more), correct?

    2) If you agree to the previous question, then would this mean then Wordfence’s core functionality would be redundant?

    3) If I still want to keep WordFence for some other features (e.g. login security), would that conflict with having the 7G rules in place, or would Wordfence still do essentially the same, but “no harm done”?
    (Some other All-in-one security plugins actively support the 6G/7G firewall, which makes me think it might not conflict).

    4) Or would you rather recommend that if I use the 7G firewall that I uninstall WordFence and instead use WordFence’s standalone login security?

    Thank you so much!

    Best wishes,
    Flo

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  • Hi,

    I’m not from Wordfence support, but instead of using 7G Firewall, I use the BBQ plugin for WordPress and Wordfence. BBq is also developped by Jeff Starr and there’s no conflict using both on a website; Besides, you get less maintenance (manually coding the htaccess file).

    Best regards,

    Plugin Support wfphil

    (@wfphil)

    Hi @rhisflow

    The 7G firewall is not the same as the Wordfence firewall as our firewall has specific custom firewall rules for specific theme and plugin vulnerabilities, as well as generic firewall rules like 7G has.

    Therfore the 7G firewall will not make the Wordfence firewall redundant as 7G only has generic firewall rules.

    We haven’t heard of any conflicts between the 7G firewall and our firewall so you should be okay to use both if you wish.

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