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Please excuse my ignorance. However, I have one NGO (UPF Eurasia) website that mainly serves Russia, but which is hosted here in West Europe for various reasons. They make use of Yandex, the Russian search engine, a lot, and asked me to add a file (yandex_xxxxxxxxxxxxx.html) in the root folder of the website and a similar TXT record in the DNS for statistical purposes, I believe. I've been having some difficulty getting this to work properly for them and I just noticed that "by default" there is a record created in the .htaccess file "SetEnvIf user-agent "(?i:Yandex)" stayout=1", in the section "Common hacking tools and bandwidth hoggers block". Do I need to remove this particular line in this case?

By the way, this may not be an Akeeba Admin Tools problem, however, I'm having difficulty in that I cannot save changes in Akeeba Admin Tools. Actually, at the moment, I have to disable Akeeba Admin Tools in order to save changes to the global configuration, but this does not allow me to save changes made in Akeeba Admin Tools itself. I just mention this in case you have any suggestion as to where this problem might be coming from.

Thanks,

Alan

Thank you very much.

At one point this morning, I had the impression that I was able to save a change to the WAF, but otherwise any attempt to save changes to the WAF or HTACCESS make just results in a 504 Gateway Time-out.

I seem to be getting some possibly related error messages in the log file of:

Date : 30/05/2024 11:20:57 IP : 83.99.11.193:0 Requête : /administrator/index.php?option=com_admintools&view=configurewaf Code HTTP : 504 Referer : https://eurasia.upf.org/administrator/index.php?option=com_admintools&view=Configurewaf User-Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0 Erreur : AH01075: Error dispatching request to :   Date : 30/05/2024 11:20:57 IP : 83.99.11.193:0 Requête : /administrator/index.php?option=com_admintools&view=configurewaf Code HTTP : 504 Referer : https://eurasia.upf.org/administrator/index.php?option=com_admintools&view=Configurewaf User-Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0 Erreur : AH01067: Failed to read FastCGI header   and   Date : 30/05/2024 11:17:57 IP : 83.99.11.193:0 Requête : /administrator/index.php?option=com_admintools&view=htaccessmaker Code HTTP : 499 Referer : https://eurasia.upf.org/administrator/index.php?option=com_admintools&view=Htaccessmaker User-Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0 Erreur : AH01075: Error dispatching request to :   Date : 30/05/2024 11:17:57 IP : 83.99.11.193:0 Requête : /administrator/index.php?option=com_admintools&view=htaccessmaker Code HTTP : 499 Referer : https://eurasia.upf.org/administrator/index.php?option=com_admintools&view=Htaccessmaker User-Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0 Erreur : AH01067: Failed to read FastCGI header

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Dear Davide,

Thank you very much. This was indeed the problem. I would never have thought of this!

Best wishes,

Alana