Hey @jchang,
I haven’t run into this before, but I can do some testing while setting it to 3 months. In the meantime, can you try changing it to the default of 7 days and let me know how it goes?
Thanks,
Gerroald
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jchang
(@jchang)
Ok I’ll let you know. Meanwhile, since I’m on aws, writing the filesystem is not possible. Would this affect wordfence?
Thread Starter
jchang
(@jchang)
Any update on this? This is happening even after I “disable firewall” altogether. It auto enabled after a couple of days. What’s going on?
Hey @jchang,
I still haven’t been able to reproduce this.
Have you had a chance to lower the Learning Mode time to 7 days?
Can you try disabling scheduled scanning and let me know if it helps? You’ll still be able to run a manual scan.
Thanks,
Gerroald
Thread Starter
jchang
(@jchang)
I disabled the scheduled scanning, and also ended up disabling wordfence altogether, but still auto-enables after a few hours.
The only thing left to do is to deactivate the plugin. I just deactivated for now until things can get fixed later.
My hunch is it has something to do wordfence files… Since we’re using aws / s3 to deliver the site, no files on the server can be changed whatsoever. Does wordfence rely on changes on the file system level or the database level?
Hey @jchang,
When you get a chance to come back to this can you please try resetting Wordfence and let me know if it helps?
https://www.wordfence.com/help/advanced/remove-or-reset/#remove-or-reset
Please let me know.
Thanks,
Gerroald
Thread Starter
jchang
(@jchang)
Thanks @WFGerroald, I’ll let you know how it goes. My honest guess is that it has something to do with the way amazon handles it’s instances, files are never stored on the server and can never be changed – only tables.
Will keep you updated.
@jchang
This may also be due to the way the wflogs files are handled in the instance (wp-content/wflogs). If those files are regenerated, Learning Mode will be activated.
Let us know if you have run into the issue again.
