Title: Wordfence connection setup issues
Last modified: March 12, 2019

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# Wordfence connection setup issues

 *  Resolved [khowell73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khowell73/)
 * (@khowell73)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-connection-setup-issues/)
 * Tyring so setup wordfence and keep getting connection issues in the step labeled:
 * Testing public key authentication with Wordfence Central
 * Keep getting the followin error message:
 * HTTP 500 received from Wordfence Central: {“errors”:[{“status”:500,”title”:”The
   server encountered an error processing your request.”,”detail”:null}]}
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwordfence-connection-setup-issues%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [wfphil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfphil/)
 * (@wfphil)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-connection-setup-issues/#post-11339850)
 * Hi [@khowell73](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khowell73/)
 * We are releasing a plugin update in the near future that will help with the connection
   issues that some users have been experiencing.
 * Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordfence-connection-setup-issues/#post-11339850)
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