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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Well I thought I was on to something
when I found some webpages referencing some config changes in
.htaccess from apache 2.2 to apache 2.4 and modified my .htaccess
file accordingly.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">At the moment it looks a bit like this:</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><RequireAll><br>
AuthName "my site"<br>
AuthType Basic<br>
AuthUserFile <myauthfile><br>
Require valid-user<br>
</RequireAll><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">but I'm still getting things like this
in the WordPress history:<br>
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Anonymous user from 208.113.162.0 9:52 am (7 minutes ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
Showing 72 more<br>
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Anonymous user from 216.10.250.0 9:43 am (15 minutes ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
Anonymous user from 36.92.1.0 9:34 am (24 minutes ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
Anonymous user from 93.93.129.0 9:32 am (27 minutes ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
Anonymous user from 104.236.75.0 9:23 am (35 minutes ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
Anonymous user from 5.196.65.0 9:15 am (43 minutes ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
Anonymous user from 46.235.225.0 9:12 am (about an hour ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
Anonymous user from 157.245.13.0 9:06 am (about an hour ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
Anonymous user from 159.89.183.0 8:56 am (about an hour ago)<br>
Failed to login with username "dougie" (incorrect password
entered) warning<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Some (but not all) of these entries
*seem* to correspond to entries in the apache error log. e.g.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">[Sun Mar 22 09:34:47.686427 2020]
[access_compat:error] [pid 20339] [client 36.92.1.31:40506]
AH01797: client denied by server configuration:
/var/www/katsura.uk/xmlrpc.php<br>
[Sun Mar 22 09:37:56.952654 2020] [access_compat:error] [pid
20336] [client 46.235.225.189:37530] AH01797: client denied by
server configuration: /var/www/katsura.uk/xmlrpc.php<br>
[Sun Mar 22 09:43:31.420134 2020] [access_compat:error] [pid
26248] [client 216.10.250.107:50212] AH01797: client denied by
server configuration: /var/www/katsura.uk/xmlrpc.php<br>
[Sun Mar 22 09:52:08.240111 2020] [access_compat:error] [pid
26248] [client 208.113.162.87:42290] AH01797: client denied by
server configuration: /var/www/katsura.uk/xmlrpc.php<br>
[Sun Mar 22 09:55:07.406225 2020] [access_compat:error] [pid
20339] [client 93.93.129.174:58464] AH01797: client denied by
server configuration: /var/www/katsura.uk/xmlrpc.php<br>
[Sun Mar 22 10:02:04.728567 2020] [access_compat:error] [pid
20340] [client 51.77.223.62:43546] AH01797: client denied by
server configuration: /var/www/katsura.uk/xmlrpc.php<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">From what I've googled, I've a feeling
this might still be something to do with the contents of my
.htaccess file.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dougie</div>
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