How to Install and Uninstall Astra Website Protection for sites using a Load Balancer

How to Install and Uninstall Astra Website Protection for sites using a Load Balancer

Pradheep BS
Written by Pradheep BSLast update 4 months ago

You can now install Astra Website Protection on environments where multiple web servers are behind a load balancer, or using read-only file systems (hosting providers such as WP Engine and Pantheon).

How to Install

  1. From our Getting Started guides, find installation steps for your CMS or Framework
    Install the plugin on all the servers being load balanced (steps may vary depending on your server configuration)

  2. Configure the Astra Website Protection plugin to use the MySQL storage engine, and set the environment variables for all the servers

  3. Now enter the Activation Code in the plugin activation page as shown in the installation guides

How to Uninstall

  1. From our Getting Started guides, find uninstallation steps for your CMS or Framework

  2. Follow the steps to uninstall the plugin from all your servers

  3. Delete the MySQL database you would have created during installation


If you have any questions about the installation, or have a different server setup - please feel free to create a support request from the widget on the bottom right - we'd be happy to help.

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