Write Logs to the Standard File Path

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This code helps define the path absolutely based on the most current directory structure; I don’t believe asking that the path be definable as a relative path is necessary:

<?php
/**
 * Write to a wflog directory inside the uploads directory path.
 *
 * @link https://wordpress.org/support/topic/write-logs-to-the-standard-file-path/
 */
if ( ! defined( 'WFWAF_LOG_PATH' ) ) {
	// Get upload directory information.
	$upload_dir_info = wp_upload_dir();
	if ( array_key_exists( 'basedir', $upload_dir_info ) && ! empty( $upload_dir_info['basedir'] ) ) {
		$use_upload_wflog = trailingslashit( $upload_dir_info['basedir'] ) . 'wflog';

		// Make sure directory defined is trailing slashed.
		define( 'WFWAF_LOG_PATH', trailingslashit( $use_upload_wflog ) );
	}
}

In another support thread it looks like a Wordfence support person responded about security vulnerabilities using the uploads directory for wflogs but after re-reading it’s not clear to me if that’s a response to defining /uploads/ or a sub directory like /uploads/wflogs/ for the log path.
Support thread: Hosting on Pantheon.io wflogs no write access

The code solution above still doesn’t make the firewall functionality supportable on Pantheon, as far as I have been able to tell, because of the issues outlined in a separate support request: Set auto_prepend_file path relatively but in case someone finds this helpful I thought I would share.