Title: Security Settings for wflogs folder
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Security Settings for wflogs folder

 *  [samdobrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samdobrow/)
 * (@samdobrow)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-settings-for-wflogs-folder/)
 * 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.
 * Please provide the specific security settings for the folder. My current settings
   are 755. The help documentation says to enable write permissions for the server.
   It seems that 777 is a security risk so I am a bit baffled by the correct settings.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Thread Starter [samdobrow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samdobrow/)
 * (@samdobrow)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-settings-for-wflogs-folder/#post-7716031)
 * I was finally able to fix this problem by deleting the wflogs folder and restarting
   the update procedure. The error message was not accurately reflecting the issue
   because the update did not work with even the most liberal security settings:
   777
 *  [wpdev999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdev999/)
 * (@wpdev999)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-settings-for-wflogs-folder/#post-7716239)
 * I had this same problem. I was getting a message to check permissions, but even
   on 777, I still got the error. Deleting the wflogs folder and letting Wordfence
   create it again solved the issue.

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 * Last reply from: [wpdev999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdev999/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-settings-for-wflogs-folder/#post-7716239)
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