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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 13 July 2023 02:52 CDT
Hello,
I have super admin access to our website and I want to make sure that my home and office IPs are never blocked.
I see that I can add the IP addresses to the WAF Exceptions List and the Site IP Allow List. What's the difference?
Thank you and take care.
David
P.S. I did read both parts of the manual.
The Site IP Allow list is a whitelist, i.e. only these IPs are allowed to access the site's administrator. Putting an IP there is not enough, you would have to enable this feature in the Configure WAF page as well. I do not recommend this option unless you have a static IP address and that place is the only place from which you will ever access your site's backend.
The IP address in the WAF Exceptions List hands "get out of jail free" cards to these IP addresses. It does not block other addresses from accessing the site's administrator. The idea here is that when these excepted IP addresses do something that would normally block the request, this won't happen. It's a way to say "hey, these IP addresses are going to be doing weird things; it's okay, please don't block them". That's what you seem to want to do.
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