Wordfence scan causing site to break- redirects to WP install page

  • Resolved llgchristy

    (@llgchristy)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Why does running a scan use so much ‘mysql’ that my site redirects to the WP install page? This has happened quite a few times (that I’ve noticed, I’m not on the site 24/7) and I just figured it out- it’s Wordfence that causes this break. I started a manual scan and while that was doing it’s thing, I went to a page on my site and it redirected me to WP install. Thanks goodness the scan page was still up so I killed the scan and my site went back to working fine. (If that scan page was not up I’d be locked out of my site.) My host suggests upping mysql from 75k an hour to 150k an hour which costs $$$. Deleting wordfence is cheaper! But I do like it. Any suggestions?

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  • Plugin Author WFMattR

    (@wfmattr)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Wordfence scans your mysql database for problems as part of the protection it offers. The database contains all of your posts and most of WordPress’s settings, so it is important to scan.

    I haven’t seen a host that limits mysql queries like that before, causing the installation page to appear. You could temporarily turn off scanning of the database, but that will decrease the protection you get from Wordfence.

    These are the scan options that would use the database most:
    Scan database for backdoors, trojans and suspicious code
    Scan posts for known dangerous URLs and suspicious content
    Scan comments for known dangerous URLs and suspicious content

    Again, I wouldn’t recommend turning these off permanently, and it would be a good idea to periodically run them manually if you can. If you can find a better hosting company in the same price range that works for your site, that would be ideal, for a modern WordPress site.

    Thread Starter llgchristy

    (@llgchristy)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you for the reply. It explains a lot. I really like wordfence. I didn’t know I could stop the scans, I looked in the settings and didn’t see that option… Doing manual scans would work better than all at once, I could do a different scan each hour eliminating the regular scans leaving my site ‘broke’ until the hour resets the database queries…

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