Beeblebrox-BSD

Thank you for the suggestion & help.

Thank you for clearing that up for me.

Since I’m just testing things until I find what I want, can you suggest any search keywords that would help me find themes or tweaks that achieve what I would like? I’m aware that you can’t suggest / plug specific themes in the forums.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Beeblebrox-BSD.

Hi @wfadam,

The solution in this thread stopped working after a WP update. Currently at WordPress 5.7.1 running Zita theme.

Web page comes up blank, even if logged into wp-admin console. Only way to fix the bug is to disable the WA line in /etc/php/7.x/fpm/php.ini
; auto_prepend_file = '/var/www/wp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/waf/wordfence-waf.php

Currently WAF is disabled on site due to this issue.

Regards.

Reminder: Please clarify your statement

Thanks for the answer, but I fail to understand:

* This section of the forum indicates at the top “Support ? Plugin: Elementor Website Builder ?”
* The plugin that caused the issue is “Elementor Website Builder”

Therefore I do not understand what you mean by “using a third-party plugin”? Which one is the 3rd party plugin?

The problem is with Business Zita, which is NOT a premium add-on.
When I use Zita alone, the font displays correctly. I’m guessing B-Z is not as well maintained and is probably less used.

I did a clean WP reinstall and the 2021 theme now works and shows correct formatting.

I had the same problem with previous (some 2 months ago) version also, so it’s a problem with the theme is my take. Could you guide me to where I should file this issue, and in the case theme development is unresponsive, what similar themes could be used?

Thanks and Regards.

Hi, thanks.

2021 theme was already deleted.

I only tried to reinstall and activate per debug instructions to see if bold font would work on 2021. Reinstalling & activating gives that error.

Thanks.

This worked & issue is solved.
Thanks.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Beeblebrox-BSD.

Email sent.
Thanks.

Hi.

Try to reinstall the plugin and let’s see if the wordfence-waf.php populates

I had already done that prior to your answer – nothing different happened.

Multiple .htaccess files are located under the top level folder worpressp/wp-content/plugins/wordfence, but no wordfence-waf.php.

1. From your comment, am I to gather that wf-waf.php gets created on the end point post install, and does not come pre-packaged in the download?
2. Can you send me an example of that file? I can’t find anything through search.

Regards.

So again to clarify,
* This WP setup is on a Cloud instance running Linux O/S
* Think of this particular case as installed on Localhost, then exposed to the internet.
* I cannot find any file named wordfence-waf.php. The only files having anything to do with “waf” are listed below. Where do I find wordfence-waf.php?

./wp-content/plugins/wordfence/vendor/wordfence/wf-waf/src/lib/waf.php
./wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/menu_firewall_waf.php
./wp-content/wflogs/config-livewaf.php

Regards.

Hi,
Hosting platform said:
“Why are you asking us? You’re on a self-hosted VM with full O/S root access”

Again, I have full O/S root on a Debian-based VM (I do not mean WP web-app root). Therefore instructions on how to link to, to or build wordfence-waf.php (whatever that is) are needed. File name search for wordfence-waf.php under /path/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence does not find any such file.

Also: From simple search, it seems `wordfence-waf.php’ might be a front-end to Linux firewall through scripts? If this is true, I might prefer to use other solutions since I have full root on the O/S.

Thanks and Regards.

Hi,
Thank you again, and apologies for such a lengthily discussion.
Here’s what I see under “Current WAF configuration” section:

WAF auto prepend active     No
WAF storage engine (WFWAF_STORAGE_ENGINE)    (default)
WAF log path    ~/wp-content/wflogs/
WAF subdirectory installation    No
wordfence-waf.php path
WAF File Permissions    0600 - using template
Recently removed wflogs files    None

Notice that wordfence-waf.php path is unset. Perhaps therein is the problem?

Hi,
I had already made the change to /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini as:

; Wordfence WAF
auto_prepend_file = '/var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/wordfence.php'
; END Wordfence WAF

I’m unable to find answers to these 2 Q’s in your documentation:
1. How do I see/test whether the WF optimization has worked?
2. Also, is there a hardening settings for the free/evaluation version of WF?

Thanks and Regards.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Beeblebrox-BSD.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Beeblebrox-BSD.