Fixing file permissions for Wordfence

  • Resolved geegee123

    (@geegee123)


    3 years, 7 months ago

    When I try to configure wordfence I get this message.

    We were unable to create the wordfence-waf.php file in the root of the WordPress installation. It’s possible WordPress cannot write to the wordfence-waf.php file because of file permissions. Please verify the permissions are correct and retry the installation.

    What folder do I need to change the file permissions for? What should I change the permissions to?

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @geegee123,

    wordfence-waf.php normally lives in the root of your site such as /home/customer/www/yoursite.com/public_html/wordfence-waf.php

    Make sure that permissions on your WordPress site’s directories are 755 and that the owner on your WordPress root directory (and all contained directories) is www-data. Web servers such as Apache, Nginx, etc will require www-data to be an owner so that WordPress and plugins can update and run functions required to do so.

    Further reading on file permissions for WordPress: https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/changing-file-permissions/

    Let me know how you get on!

    Thanks,

    Peter.

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