Title: Permissions for firewall
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Permissions for firewall

 *  [mike14017](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike14017/)
 * (@mike14017)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-for-firewall/)
 * Hi
 * I keep getting this 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 reset the permissions. wp-content – 777, wflogs – 777. Have you any idea
   why I still get this message
 * Regards
 * Mike
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 *  [wfasa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfasa/)
 * (@wfasa)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-for-firewall/#post-7303509)
 * Hello mike14017,
    are you on Windows or Linux?
 *  Thread Starter [mike14017](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike14017/)
 * (@mike14017)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permissions-for-firewall/#post-7303532)
 * Hi
 * Linux

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