Do I need to configure wordfence on my clone site?

  • Resolved stemsrus

    (@stemsrus)


    5 months, 1 week ago

    I have wordfence installed on my main site.
    /home/mysite/public_html/wordfence-waf.php

    I recently cloned mysite under development.
    /home/mysite/public_html/development

    I received this message from wordfence.
    To make your site as secure as possible, take a moment to optimize the Wordfence Web Application Firewall:

    When I click to configure, I see the following php file listed in the directory.
    /home/mysite/public_html/wordfence-waf.php

    Do I need to worry about optimizing since development is in the public_html directory? Or do I need to modify this path? I’ll do whatever is best for my site.

    Please advise
    Ronald Cross

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @stemsrus, thanks for reaching out.

    If the /development path isn’t publicly accessible then you don’t necessarily need to optimize the firewall. Some customers choose not to do this with their local development environments to prevent issues around the location of wordfence-waf.php in .htaccess not matching when the site goes live. Some may even disable Wordfence so it doesn’t run scans or any other checks until they enable it on their live site.

    As your /development path looks to be inside your current live site’s root folder, it may be advisable to disable Wordfence so you’re not running two sets of scans etc. You can make the live version still scan the folder by enabling ?Wordfence > All Options > General Options Scan files outside your WordPress installation.

    Many thanks,
    Peter.

    Thread Starter stemsrus

    (@stemsrus)

    wfpeter, thanks for the clear and precise explanation.

    Regards,
    Ronald

    Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    No worries @stemsrus, happy to help.

    If you have any questions about Wordfence in future, by all means start up a new topic any time!

    Peter.

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