Overcame Mod Security
by Landon RoddenberryFor those of you familiar with Apache and Wordpress, this will probably make sense. If not - Mod_security is an open source firewall that is typically coupled with Apache.
Shared Hosting companies like Bluehost, Godaddy, and Hostgator all run this software to protect the hosted Wordpress sites from brute force, csrf, and other types of attacks. It's good, sometime too good. Naturally, my software relies on being able to remotely access customers' WP sites and manage them. Which of course requires that siterack "play nice" with Mod_Sec.
Shortly after deployment, I began receiving errors from siterack. "401 ACCESS FORBIDDEN". It's as scary as it sounds.
Long story short, I debugged this issue for days and finally hired a freelancer to help me out.
Two days and $100 later, siterack is back in the green! 💪
