I am trying to let my vendors log in as administrators to fix problems after a major upgrade of Joomla. However, they get blocked. I tried whitelisting ("never block...") their IP addresses but it didn't work. When I looked a the logs, I saw that they all had the same IP address. I realized this is because my Joomla installation is behind a NAT firewall. So the WAF is not reacting to the "forwarded-for" address but just blocking the address of the NAT firewall. I temporarily solved the problem by whitelisting the NAT firewall address. Is there anyway to tell the AdminTools WAF to use the "forwarded-for" address or otherwise work with a NAT firewall so that I can continue to use the WAF functionality? It's very Joomla-specific (which is good) so I'd rather use it than an external WAF.
#26285 Using Web Application Firewall with NAT
Posted in ‘Admin Tools for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Latest post by on Wednesday, 09 November 2016 17:20 CST
Monday, 10 October 2016 11:34 CDT
user91085
Monday, 10 October 2016 13:18 CDT
dlb
This is the fix for a different, but similar, problem. Please go to Web Application Firewall, Configure WAF, on the first tab, flip the value in "Enable IP workarounds". If it is currently yes, make it no, if it is no, make it yes.
Dale L. Brackin
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Wednesday, 09 November 2016 17:20 CST
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