VST Life

@kokkieh I am aware of that feature, and it was turned on. However, it did not seem to be helping with the recent increase in attacks against xmlrpc. I ended up creating a firewall rule to only allow access to xmlrpc from “known” Jetpack IP addresses.

It’s not a post, it’s happening on the internal wp-admin pages. I think the main culprit was a plugin that was blocking the xmlrpc protocol that the Jetpack uses to send/receive data. I deleted that plugin and replaced it with “Limit Login Attempts” (for brute force attacks). After a while, the Jetpack menus started looking mostly “normal” again. I am still seeing a huge green Jetpack icon on the site stats page, but everything else is okay.

The answer was staring me right in the face. Removing “php” from my hotlinking rewrite rule now allows the pages to be linked to from Google, etc. Doh!

VL

Nofearinc, thanks for the reply. Yes, the site seems to work normally otherwise:
VST Life

After I get the 403 from say a Google link I have to insert the cursor and manually load the link. It is really weird, which makes me think it is something in Apache. This is the htaccess I am using now:

# Use stable version of PHP
AddHandler php-stable .php

# STOP Hotlinking
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(en\.)?vstlife.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|zip|rar|mp3|flv|swf|xml|php|png|css|pdf)$ - [F] 

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

This is a very cool plugin. I just tried it and noticed that my Youtube videos do not appear (Youtube Brackets).

I got busy after posting this and didn’t look into it any further. Then a couple days ago it just started working again. I am guessing maybe it was a server side issue on WordPress.com?