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by ljj
11 Feb 2022, 17:55
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: What would cause hourly file integrity failures?
Replies: 0
Views: 912

What would cause hourly file integrity failures?

On a VPS running current WHM and CSF/LFD: Time: Fri Feb 11 18:01:06 2022 -0500 The following list of files have FAILED the md5sum comparison test. This means that the file has been changed in some way. This could be a result of an OS update or application upgrade. If the change is unexpected it shou...
by ljj
17 Oct 2015, 18:51
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: CSF and Wordpress Practices
Replies: 5
Views: 6805

Re: CSF and Wordpress Practices

Awesome... I also changed the location of htaccess to the access_log instead of error_log

Thanks very much....

/ljj
by ljj
17 Oct 2015, 13:57
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: CSF and Wordpress Practices
Replies: 5
Views: 6805

Re: CSF and Wordpress Practices

Here's one:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - - [17/Oct/2015:08:56:05 -0400] "GET /foo.foo HTTP/1.1" 404 8684
by ljj
16 Oct 2015, 22:01
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: Block brute force on wordpress wp-login ?
Replies: 12
Views: 31626

Re: Block brute force on wordpress wp-login ?

I use the htaccesss file to whitelist acceptable users and networks to use wp-login. this triggers 403's which are quickly detected by CSF/LFD. I also use a login limiter plug-in as a last resort. To get around changing IP's on ISP's like Comcast, I whitelist all their dynamic IP's figuring this at ...
by ljj
15 Oct 2015, 23:57
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: CSF and Wordpress Practices
Replies: 5
Views: 6805

Re: CSF and Wordpress Practices

Let me ask a related question... CSF/LFD looks at usr/local/apache/logs/error_log by default error_log shows all 403's but NOT Wordpress 404's access_log shows all 403's and 404's But pointing at access_log does not seem to catch anything... Am I missing something? I have googled for 2 weeks for an ...
by ljj
15 Oct 2015, 13:07
Forum: General Discussion (csf)
Topic: CSF and Wordpress Practices
Replies: 5
Views: 6805

CSF and Wordpress Practices

Hi - this is my first post - but I have been an reader of this forum for a long time and learned a great deal. I run a VPS with a number of low traffic, largely static Wordpress sites. It is Centos based and I use W3TC caching and a CDN to offload the server, which is very underutilized. I run Apach...