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Day: June 12, 2019

How to fix mixed content in Elementor after moving to SSL

We often see mixed content on Elementor based sites after moving to SSL. Really Simple SSL Pro automatically handles this for you when you activate SSL. If you’re comfortable tweaking your URL settings manually, you can try the following solution: Be sure to create a backup of your database before performing the following steps Navigate to ‘Elementor->Tools->Replace URL’ and enter your old site address (with http://) and your new site address (with https://). You can find your current Site Address

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Day: June 12, 2019

About the Firewall

The Firewall module in Really Simple Security is a powerful feature that allows you to monitor and filter requests to your WordPress site. You can activate the firewall by enabling the “Enable Firewall” slider under SSL & Security -> Settings -> Firewall. This article explains how to configure the firewall rules in Really Simple Security to identify and lock out unwanted, malicious traffic from your WordPress site. Table of Contents 404 Blocking Region Blocking User Agents IP Allowlist & Blocklist Event

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Jarno Vos October 10, 2024

Using Really Simple Security with a custom wp-config.php file

Really Simple Security writes some rules to the wp-config.php file on your WordPress site, for instance, to load the Firewall and Security Headers. But it could be that your WordPress installation uses a ‘custom’ file, instead of the standard wp-config.php file on a standard WordPress installation. For example, the hosting provider Convesio uses a file called wp-convesio.php, and any changes that the Really Simple SSL plugin makes to the “standard” wp-config.php file would get overwritten & lost as a result.

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Jarno Vos July 16, 2024

About File Change Detection

The File Change Detection feature (located under SSL & Security -> “Settings” -> Hardening -> File Change Detection) enables a daily scan to monitor if any changes have been made to files in WordPress Core, or files from Plugins or Themes on your site. If files are being modified without performing any updates, and without manually having modified those files via FTP this could indicate that your WordPress installation was infected by malware that targeted & modified those files on your server.

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Jarno Vos May 31, 2024