Title: Error on rules update
Last modified: March 9, 2023

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# Error on rules update

 *  Resolved [SteveHale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
 * (@stevehale)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-rules-update/)
 * I am getting this error:
 * No rules were updated. Please verify you have permissions to write to the /wp-
   content/wflogs directory.
 * Please can you help.
 * Regards
 * Steve B
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ferror-on-rules-update%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * (@wfpeter)
 * [3 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-rules-update/#post-16543279)
 * Hi [@stevehale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/), thanks for reaching
   out to us.
 * If you’re not seeing permission failures to either your database or files reported
   on your **Wordfence > Tools > Diagnostics** page, I would try navigating to your**
   wp-content/wflogs** folder via FTP or file manager. You should be able to delete
   the wflogs folder or its contents entirely and Wordfence should try to repopulate
   it within 30 minutes.
 * It’s also worth checking that in addition to `755` permissions on your WordPress
   site’s directories, the process owner is also `www-data`.
 * If you experience persistent problems with the rules.php file, you can bypass
   this entirely by setting Wordfence to write to the MySQLi storage engine instead
   of a file: [https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/mysqli-storage-engine/](https://www.wordfence.com/help/firewall/mysqli-storage-engine/)
 * Thanks,
   Peter.
 *  Thread Starter [SteveHale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
 * (@stevehale)
 * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-rules-update/#post-16641724)
 * I still cannot get this to work.
 * So I have moved on to another firewall….

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 * Last reply from: [SteveHale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevehale/)
 * Last activity: [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-on-rules-update/#post-16641724)
 * Status: resolved