Configure WF Firewall

  • markf1

    (@markf1)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    A message appears in the WP dashboard saying to configure WF firwewall.

    I click continue and get error message: “We were unable to write to ~/wp-content/wflogs/ which the WAF uses for storage. Please update permissions on the parent directory so the web server can write to it.”

    I have checked the w-content folder and it has permission 755. So…? I cannot get past that. step.

    Thanks in advance for any help

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

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  • wflandon

    (@wflandon)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi markf1,

    It sounds like you checked the right folder permissions, but I believe it also needs to be owned by the user the web server is running under. Take a look at this and see if it helps. Web server permissions can be really tricky sometimes.

    Thread Starter markf1

    (@markf1)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi and thanks for your reply.

    “but I believe it also needs to be owned by the user the web server is running under.”

    I don’t understand what that means?

    I looked at the link you provided and it seems to say to check the wp-content folder permission, which is also 755. so I’m still stuck with that error message and unable to configure WF Firewall.

    The site is a small personal blog and it’s hosted at Fatcow.

    Thanks in adavvance for any help

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