Legacy 5G Firewall Protection interferes with .htaccess “deny,allow” rules

  • Resolved Pat Lee

    (@pat-lee)


    5 years, 5 months ago

    I discovered that the code related to the “Enable legacy 5G Firewall Protection” is inserting code into the .htaccess file that could conflict with “deny,allow” rules if present in the file.

    For instance, I had:

    # BEGIN IP Whitelist
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from XX.XXX.XX.XX
allow from XX.XXX.XX.XX
allow from XX.XXX.XX.XX
# END IP Whitelist

    But noticed it was not working or throwing an error.

    I discovered this bit of code in the .htaccess file was causing the conflict. 

    # 5G:[USER AGENTS]
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
# SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent ^$ keep_out
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent (binlar|casper|cmsworldmap|comodo|diavol|dotbot|feedfinder|flicky|ia_archiver|jakarta|kmccrew|nutch|planetwork|purebot|pycurl|skygrid|sucker|turnit|vikspider|zmeu) keep_out
<limit GET POST PUT>
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
Deny from env=keep_out
</limit>
</IfModule>

    Once I disabled “Enable legacy 5G Firewall protection” and the problem disappeared. Just wanted to let you know in case it helps anybody else.

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  • Plugin Contributor mbrsolution

    (@mbrsolution)

    Hi, please disable 5G rules and enable 6G rules. 6G rules are the latest and up to date version to use.

    Kind regards

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