connecting the dots….
After looking into this I have decided that the amount of effort would not be worth it. Instead I’ve implemented a firewall rule at Cloudflare which challenges any traffic that does not come from the US or Canada. This will stem the tide of bot traffic without blocking legitimate traffic.
Down the line I’ll set up country blocking in opnSense…..
Working on this site with the new WP v5.8.2 I was hitting an error when using block editor.
I installed the ‘Classic Editor’ plugin so that I could keep working…
The data in the error looked like this…
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Site Health (plugin) was giving me this…
I was able to get everything working by making sure that my Nginx site config contained the following:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
You have to include the "?$args" part so non-default permalinks doesn't break when using query string
Lastly don’t forget to restart Nginx so that the changes are applied.
I hope this helps someone, since I wasted a couple hours getting to the bottom of this. 🙂