WP,iThemes Security, htaccess

[aglyons]

I'm currently running my sites on NGINX. iThemes does support this configuration but it has come to my understanding that the conf files NGINX uses are only parsed at load time. In other words, any changes made to conf files only are applied when the NGINX service is reloaded on the server.

OpenLitespeed does use htaccess as I've learned but I'm curious if it is in a similar manner as NGINX where the htaccess contents are only parsed at load time?

iThemes will dynamically block IP's if there is a brute force login attempt made as well as some other security settings. If these directives are not applied immediately then I will have to manually restart services on a regular basis which I want to avoid.

Any ideas on solutions?

 

[Pong]

OLS only support rewrite rules(no other directives) in .htaccess and yes, every change in .htaccess will require a OLS restart. LiteSpeed Enterprise has no need to restart if this is something you are looking for.