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#35774 WAF Exceptions Already Filled in

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Latest post by snowgoose on Friday, 10 September 2021 09:46 CDT

Friday, 10 September 2021 08:04 CDT

snowgoose

I have installed Admin Tools on a new Joomla 4.0.2 website. On setting up the WAF initially, I find that on the EXCEPTIONS tab there are a load of IP addresses already present under "Never block these IPs" and a load of domains already presetn in the "Never block these domains" section.

I am rather concerned as to how they got there and why they are there. If I remove them all and SAVE then log out of the back end of my site, close the browser, open a browser and log in again, all the IPs and Domains have been restored!

This doesn't seem like something that Akeeba would do without documenting the reason why and I can find no reason.

I have looked at my older 3.10.1 Joomla sites running vers 6.1.1 of Admin Tools and that is the same.

Could you please shed any light on what might be happening here?

Thank you

Dave

Edited by on 2021-10-10 20:45 CDT

Friday, 10 September 2021 08:43 CDT

nicholas

These are the safe IP address range and domain names of major search engines. We preload them to prevent a number of issues where false positives would result in your site dropping off the index of major search engines.

They are currently documented for Admin Tools 6 in https://www.akeeba.com/documentation/admin-tools/web-application-firewall.html#waf-configure-exceptions under “Never block these IPs” and “Allowed domains”. I am not sure why the Admin Tools 7 documentation wasn't updated. I will look into it.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Friday, 10 September 2021 09:46 CDT

snowgoose

Ok, thank you for explaining! That makes perfect sense. :-)