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  1. Alaa Mansour

    Issue Firewall IP Ban (fail2ban) Wordpress

    Hello, everybody, after I have migrated the server, fail2ban no longer ban ip addresses automatically, and put them in a list in the firewall, I have to di it manually, even though the rules of the jails are as same as previous. I can see the IP address in the list of banned ip under the jail...
  2. O

    Question Customized firewall rules and fail2ban jail

    I find the firewall rules names quite confusing. For example, the name of SMPT: SMTP (mail sending) server. Does this mean the smtp ports 25 and 465? I want to create my own custom rules and have some screenshots with settings below. Are these the correct settings? This is the image of SMTP...
  3. J

    Question Reset firewall rules with command line

    Hi, I no longer have access to my server because my IP address has changed. I can access to it in rescue mode... How can I reset firewall rules with command line ? Thanks,
  4. B

    Issue Plesk - Can not find FTP Setting

    Hi FTP is installed under Plesk Obsidian, but can not find Passive FTP Setting as referred by this article "Articles 115003577753", I am using Vultr. I am trying to connect via FTP, but have not been successful. The FTP connects and works fine when I disable Vultr Firewall, but when on it...
  5. P

    Question Command line for adding firewall rule for icmp

    I need to add a large number of IPs to be allowed to ping the web server. My Plesk version is Obsidian 18.0.36. The Plesk admin GUI does provide this, but it is impossible to type in all of the IPs one by one and add. So I'm looking for a command line alternative. I can add other firewall...
  6. Mark12345

    Question Blocking IP Ranges using Plesk Firewall or NGINX Deny

    Creating rules using the Plesk Firewall utility is painful. Especially when you want to block or allow hundreds of IP ranges. Let's take for example wanting to only allow USA IP addresses per this table Major IP Address Blocks For United States Do I want to go through every row and add them...
  7. L

    Question iptables port blocking [in & out] - which open, which filtered?

    Hey everyone, how do you handle your firewall? Blocking all incoming traffic and open the related ports for incoming Traffic like 80, 443, 8443 and so on, and do you block also all outgoing traffic and open the related ports for outgoing or just let open all ports for outgoing traffic? Thanks :)
  8. M

    Issue Exposing port via docker container security issues - DELETED

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  9. K

    Issue Docker proxy timeout with firewall enabled

    Hi guys and girls at Plesk, After adding a new docker container yesterday all my docker proxies stopped working. I've been investigating and just now found out that when I disable the Plesk firewall everything comes back up. When re-enabling the firewall proxies stop functioning again...
  10. J

    Issue Firewall Problems

    I have recently migrated to a replacement Plesk Server (Obsidian for Linux) with a new supplier. I'm having trouble with the Firewall. The CMS I'm using (Craft CMS) won't let me save entries. But if I turn the Plesk Firewall off and on it can save entries again. But then later it stops working...
  11. dengolius

    Resolved Firewall settings disappeared from Tools & Settings

    Hi there! I can't find Firewall configuration menu in Plesk. How to resolve this issue or maybe I have turned off it somewhere ?
  12. I

    Resolved Port 3030

    Hi all, my customer is application work on port 3030 he has application on server via NodeJS error is in attachment , i try via firewall in plesk do add custom rule and allow incoming connections on TCP port 3030 but not succeed please for advise
  13. B

    Issue Have a WordPress, widely-used plugins not able to Outbound Communicate

    Hi all, Got a WordPress installation on a site for a client; I always keep it up-to-date as far as the WordPress version; we only use a few really widely-known plugins, and the "Theme" is one of the default WordPress ones that comes with a basic WordPress installation. Been using it for a good...
  14. D

    Issue Plesk Firewall IP-Whitelist does not work correctly

    Plesk Obsidian 18.0.21 Update Nr. 5 Today i discovered some huge security issue with Plesk Firewall. Because we got a new static ip adress, i discovered "Allow from selected sources, deny from others" does not work. My old static ip adress was whitelisted, but i got still full access with the...
  15. Franco

    Resolved Plesk Firewall ipv6

    Hello, is it possible to manage ipv6 addresses on the Plesk Firewall interface? I have seen a few posts about the command line firewall, but I am using the tools&setting Firewall panel. I need to enable a specific ipv6 to use SSH. I guess that if I do it on the command line it will be overridden...
  16. V

    Question Multiple firewalls / antiviruses?

    Hello guys! 1. I just want to know, do you use multiple security extensions or just one? I used imunify360 but I want to activate cloudflare which also has the firewall... 2. Do you ever had any conflict between the plugins? 3. What extension should I use? Thank you!
  17. A

    Issue From past 3 days, getting a lot of Spam Traffic from US, How to Block?

    Before I go ahead let me mention couple of things, I'm having a dedicated server with CentOS 7, Plesk Onyx Web Pro Edition with Firewall, Fail2Ban & Modsecurity switched ON and nginx as my main webserver. (Not using Apache) From past 3 days, all of a sudden there was a spike in traffic and it...
  18. C

    Question Can the Plesk Firewall extension potentially 'Lock me out' of a server?

    I am contemplating the installation of the Plesk Firewall extension, where I can see that Policies and Rules can be set as to restrict access to a server based on IP. Firstly, what is the difference between restricting access by IP within 'Plesk's Firewall Extension' and within 'Tools &...
  19. S

    Resolved Port 25 closed cannot send email

    I've switched to Ionos cloud server and for security reason they close the port 25, I don't have any mail servers on my server so I don't really care BUT my problem is that I cannot send email from the server to myself. I'm speaking about Watchdog and Clamav, in clamav I use mail -s ... to send...
  20. I

    Question Firewall Lockdown

    Hello, I am looking to use firewall rules to help secure my server by closing any unnecessary services, the server is solely for web hosting. Can you see any issues with denying and of the following items, see image below. Many thanks,
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