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Day: September 14, 2020

How to install an SSL certificate on Apache

If you have generated your Let’s Encrypt certificate with Really Simple SSL, and you don’t have any of the automated installation options (shell, cPanel with API, Plesk with API or Cloudways), you’ll need to install the SSL certificate manually on your Apache server. Download your certificate files At the end of the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate generation in the Really Simple SSL wizard, you see several buttons allowing you to download the required files: a certificate.crt and a private.pem file.

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Leon Wimmenhoeve September 14, 2020

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Day: September 14, 2020

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