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Im getting the error: “WAN initialization is not allowed by the current Pixory configuration” Whats up with that?

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Im getting the error: “WAN initialization is not allowed by the current Pixory configuration” Whats up with that?

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The wan initialization check is a security measure. Suppose that you install Pixory, but before you complete the basic configuration page someone from the Internet navigates to Pixory. They too will get the basic Configuration page and will have an opportunity to complete the configuration and hijack the application. So if Pixory has not yet been “initialized” (had the required fields on the basic configuration page filled in), it checks the ip address of all incoming requests and makes sure that the client belongs to the same LAN as the server that is running Pixory. Here LAN is defined by this subnet mask: 0.0.0.255. The idea is that all machines on the lan are friendly, whereas all machines outside the lan are hostile.

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