Optimize Wordfence Firewall

  • Resolved rbrobertshaw

    (@rbrobertshaw)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    So, I’m trying to set up my wordfence firewall – and I’m getting the following error:

    We were unable to create the wordfence-waf.php file in the root of the WordPress installation. It’s possible WordPress cannot write to the wordfence-waf.php file because of file permissions. Please verify the permissions are correct and retry the installation.

    I read something about permissions; I see what my permissions are but, I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do with that.

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  • Hi @rbrobertshaw,

    Can you change the permissions such that…

    – folders and sub-folders are 755
    – files are 644

    After changing the permissions just for the document root (i.e the folder containing wp-contents), go to Wordfence -> Tools -> Diagnostics, and look under Filesystem.

    Dave

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