PHP Fatal error:? Failed opening required … wordfence-waf.php
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This is on a staging site on Bluehost. (The previous post on this topic is not relevant to this.)
I’m trying to migrate my site to another host and getting this fatal error:
PHP Fatal error: Failed opening required ‘/home/j6vpqk8n10fz/public_html/wordfence-waf.php’ (include_path=’.:/opt/cpanel/ea-php82/root/usr/share/pear’) in Unknown on line 0
I have FTP access but no WordPress access yet. To facilitate the migration, I have 1) deleted the Wordfence plugin, 2) renamed “wordfence-waf.php” (to wordfence-waf-OLD.php, 3) renamed the wflogs folder to wflogs-DISABLED. 4) renamed the plugins folder to plugins-OLD (attempt to get rid of a 500 err.) — but still getting this “fatal error” in my error.log.
Where else could this “required” is coming from? How do I delete or comment it out?
Thanx much – Glenn
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Found the answer. There is a file called .user.ini in my public_html folder looks like this:
; Wordfence WAF
auto_prepend_file = ‘/home/xxxxxxxxxx/public_html/wordfence-waf.php’
; END Wordfence WAFThe auto_prepend_file line has to be commented out to eliminate the fatal error (and the 500 error. ) Now that I’ve eliminated this I can access the site and should be able to continue the install.
The problem was: The staging site’s path starts with /home2/… rather than /home/… Although all these paths could be edited, it is probably better to delete all files relating to Wordfence and then re-install once I migrate to the live site.
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