The OWASP Top 10 and vCanopy WordPress Security Options
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Additional Security Measure Nginx Includes and Whitelisting
Introduction The vCanopy Additional Security measures for WordPress hardening each contain an Nginx include which can be used when are they are active. You can use these includes to customize their behaviour, including adding your own whitelisting. You can learn more about our Nginx/OLS hardening measures in this knowledge base article: WordPress Website Hardening for […]
Allow or Deny IP Addresses on OpenLiteSpeed
Introduction vCanopy OpenLiteSpeed (OLS) offers a server-wide and per-site, IP allow/deny mechanism. This allows you to explicitly allow or deny access to a list of IP addresses and/or subnets to your virtual hosts (which in this context means each of your individual websites). Below we’ll look at how you use these configuration files on your […]
Additional Security Measure Whitelisting on OpenLiteSpeed (OLS)
Introduction While OpenLiteSpeed comes with a .htaccess file that supports Apache mod_rewrite rules, we recommend that you add your custom rewrite rules to the auto-generated rewrites.conf file located in: /var/www/site.url/ols/rewrites.conf Your custom rewrite rules take place before any of the vCanopy core rewrite rules are appended, and with this you can create whitelists for the […]