wordpressmike

Thanks for your fast and thorough response- I’ve become very familiar with the .htaccess rules and I’ve spent a while attempting to figure out why it’s blocking the link checker and the facebook bot. I assume the facebook bot is downloading the thumbnail for the page- This is what we want because people are more likely to click on a link if it has a thumbnail.

I thought perhaps the link checker was making a HEAD request but it says GET in the log.

Also, with point 3 let me clarify. I have http://www.mydomain.com/ with wordpress installed at root. I then have http://www.mydomain.com/dir/ which I have placed a .htaccess file in containing a single line: “Options +Indexes” in order to display the index in that one directory but no others. The line that I commented out interfered with my customization.

I also put the following custom code in the custom code tab so I can except my directory from being processed by the wordpress script. This had worked with previous versions of bulletproof security but only recently stopped working. It took a lot of effort to find out what the problem was. I’ve worked around this issue but I thought you might want to know about the issue in case it can help another user.

# EXCEPTIONS FOR VARIOUS MYCOMPANY DIRECTORIES
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dir [NC]
RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/dir2 [NC]
RewriteRule . – [L]

(Please note that the above customizations are on one wordpress installation- problems 1 and 2 were replicated on a vanilla install on a different server.

I will try to get you a rewrite log later.