Title: Additional Firewall Rules Issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Additional Firewall Rules Issue

 *  [mcfester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcfester/)
 * (@mcfester)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-firewall-rules-issue/)
 * When activating any Additional Firewall rule it max’s out entry process, cpu 
   and memory and returns 403 from admin and site pages, although no pages on my
   site have query strings.
    I need to delete the htaccess via ftp and then update
   options with these disabled. Other than that, everything else works fine and 
   its drasticly reduced server resource usage. I can do without these rules but
   thought I’d share the info incase theres a quick fix for this. Great plugin!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * (@wpsolutions)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-firewall-rules-issue/#post-4689304)
 * [@mcfester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcfester/),
    Thanks for the info.
 * I haven’t so far been able to reproduce the behaviour which you are seeing.
    
   Perhaps your server produced logs which might shed more light. Can you check 
   your server for any logs?
 *  Thread Starter [mcfester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcfester/)
 * (@mcfester)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-firewall-rules-issue/#post-4689315)
 * Hi, I’m on a shared server with cpanel, no root access, if you could tell me 
   what to look for I could have a go.
 *  Plugin Contributor [wpsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpsolutions/)
 * (@wpsolutions)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-firewall-rules-issue/#post-4689319)
 * First try doing this.
    Go to the following AIOWPS menu: Filesystem Security->
   Host System Logs
 * Then enter **error_log** and click the “View Latest System logs” button and see
   if anything comes up.
 * If no logs are shown, then talk to your host provider to see if they can help
   you find any server logs (including apache logs) on the system. Explain to them
   the issue you are trying to troubleshoot.
 *  Thread Starter [mcfester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcfester/)
 * (@mcfester)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-firewall-rules-issue/#post-4689322)
 * I recreated the problem by checking all options in additional firewall settings.
   
   Here is the wordpress error log
 * _[ Hundreds of lines of log data deleted, please use [pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com/)
   instead if you must share that ]_
 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-firewall-rules-issue/#post-4689487)
 * Hi [@mcfester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcfester/) have you tested
   the latest version of the plugin?

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 * Last reply from: [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-firewall-rules-issue/#post-4689487)
 * Status: not resolved