Getting a Host Lockout Message – 'error'

@mike Matenkosky

Probably due to many 404s on your site.

Is the Enable 404 Detection checkbox ticked in the 404 Detection section on the iTSec plugin Settings page ?

If so disable it and navigate to the Logs page to see what 404s are occurring. Fix the 404s and you can enable 404 Detection again.

dwinden

Not sure why I’m getting a lot of 404s when most of them are listed in the “404 File/Folder White List”.

I guess I just need to un-check that box?

My “404 File/Folder White List”:

/favicon.ico
/robots.txt
/apple-touch-icon.png
/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png
/wp-content/cache
/browserconfig.xml
/crossdomain.xml
/labels.rdf
/trafficbasedsspsitemap.xml

One of the 404s:
/portfolio/nature/abstract/favicon.ico

@mike Matenkosky

I think you will need to add the entire path relative to the WordPress root in the “404 File/Folder White List”.

Try it and let me know the result …

dwinden

I really don’t understand. I didn’t create the folder white list.

Never mind, I figured that out. I forgot I didn’t have the path correct in my meta: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico?v=2" />.

I will let you know if this didn’t fix it.

@mike Matenkosky

I’m well aware you did not create that whitelist. They are default entries (mostly in the root of the WordPress install).

The existing /favicon.ico entry will only whitelist a 404 on this request:

https://www.domain.com/favicon.ico

So a 404 on a request like:

https://www.domain.com/portfolio/nature/abstract/favicon.ico

is not currently whitelisted.

Anyway is this a correct URL in your env ?
If not how should this request look like to make it valid?

Something like:

https://www.domain.com/wp-content/uploads/portfolio/nature/abstract/favicon.ico ?

(Whether the favicon.ico file actually exists in this location is another story. It’s the full and correct path we need to focus on first).

dwinden

Just to let you I submitted my post without noticing your last post.
So I only responded to your previous post.
Complicated … ??

dwinden

I’m used to be confused/complicated…lol!

It seems to work now. I appreciate your help!