Firewall problem

  • Resolved wpress2010

    (@wpress2010)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    I have WordFence installed on a fairly large WordPress site that I now need to move from the development server to the live site server.

    I am using BackupBuddy, a sophisticated tool for doing this sort of thing. It operates in the usual manner, but seems to crash when it reports, “Failed opening required ‘/mypath/mywordpressroot/wordfence-waf.php’ ”

    I tried first to deactivate WordFence, same outcome. Then I removed Wordfence, and after that I looked at the file tree and the wordfence-waf.php file is still there, and apparently causing trouble. If I just delete that file, having already removed the plugin, it literally kills the whole site and I can’t even get back in without restoring the site from yesterday’s backup.

    How can it be that I cannot get rid of this firewall AFTER I have (temporarily, of course) removed WordFence?

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by wpress2010. Reason: typo
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  • Hi @wpress2010,

    Can you check in the document root (folder containing wp-content, wp-admin) to see if there is a file named .htaccess or .user.ini?

    Try editing that file and remove any reference to wordfence-waf.php.

    Dave

    Thread Starter wpress2010

    (@wpress2010)

    Thanks, I found that solution online a few minutes after I posted this. It’s the user.ini that forces the “visit” to wordfence-waf.php. There is an entry for WordFence in the .htaccess file, but once the user.ini file has been removed, I don’t think it makes too much difference.

    I am letting the backup software people know about this, as it probably is a common problem.

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