WordPress environments run on a variety of web servers. Steel Security adapts hardening techniques depending on the detected server.
Apache
Apache commonly uses .htaccess rules to enforce protections such as uploads execution blocking, directory listing protection, and file access restrictions.
IIS
IIS commonly uses web.config rules for equivalent protections.
Nginx
Nginx environments often require manual configuration guidance because Nginx typically ignores .htaccess. Steel Security provides recommendations for those environments.