

WP Engine has also been known to rectify some issues when “Purge All Caches” in the General Settings section is tried. The path I see for wordfence-waf.php is /nas/content/live/yoursitename/wordfence-waf.php but if there are no other sites present in this location then that path is also reporting correctly.

It is also possible that the current wordfence-waf.php is pointing to another installation on the same server, or that the MySQLi storage engine can’t use the values from wp-config.php. user.ini, because of WP Engine’s own auto_prepend_file.ĭeactivating/activating the plugin usually fixes data issues on this platform. On WP Engine, the WAF should optimize if wordfence-waf.php is in place, without needing. Our usual advice that has worked involves removing and re-optimizing the WAF but I am aware of the lengthy steps you’ve already taken. NOTE: It should look as follows – Screenshot of Tools > Diagnostic > Send by Email Please add your forum username where indicated and respond here after you have sent it.

com? You can find the link to do so at the top of the Wordfence > Tools > Diagnostics page. If it doesn’t, enable plugins one-by-one followed by your theme to see when the problem is reintroduced.įailing this, can you send a diagnostic report to wftest wordfence. I would always recommend trying to run Wordfence with no other plugins enabled and a default theme such as Twenty Twenty-One and seeing if the problem persists. htaccess was specified but should be configuring correctly when setting up a fresh installation on this setup.įor your second issue, WPEngine is meant to use MySQLi automatically, so it’s interesting that it’s having to fall back to the file method. htaccess which was an issue for importing sites from other locations where an. I have followed both guides regarding these issues. The WAF will fall back to using local file system storage instead. The WAF storage engine is currently set to mysqli, but Wordfence is unable to use the database. I have contacted WP Engine’s support team. I have manually deleted the plugin and its SQL tables. I have uninstalled & reinstalled the plugin. The problem is that I am not seeing “The Wordfence Web Application Firewall cannot run.” If this does not work, you may need to fix file permissions. If you see a notice at the top of the Wordfence admin pages that says “The Wordfence Web Application Firewall cannot run,” click the link in that message to rebuild the configuration. I am getting the following error message upon doing a Wordfence scan…ĭetails: Wordfence’s Web Application Firewall has been unexpectedly disabled.
