Manually Refresh Rules

Hey @trudslev,

Can you please manually check the rules.php file’s timestamp in wp-content/wflogs/ to make sure it’s not updating? I’m wondering if this may be a false error.

Thanks,

Gerroald

I’ve been having the same problem. Rules have not updated since 7/22/19. I’ve taken a pcap of the update transaction and the VPS appears to successfully reach noc4.wordfence.com although the session is SSL encrypted, so I do not have any visibility into the actual transaction.

edit to add: My rules file shows the last update on 7/22 at 02:22 UTC, symptoms are the same as poster above. Manual update indicates that I have used up all of my update attempts.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by vegasmerch.

I had reinstalled it and thought that solved the problem, but it came back.

Error:

“The last rules update for the Wordfence Web Application Firewall was unsuccessful. The last successful update check was 25. August 2019 10:01, so this site may be missing new rules added since then. You may wait for the next automatic attempt at 15. September 2019 09:57 or try to Manually Update by clicking the “Manually Refresh Rules” button below the Rules list.”

and an “ls -l”:

“-rw——- 1 www-data www-data 40083 Sep 8 13:39 attack-data.php
-rw——- 1 www-data www-data 2157 Sep 9 06:51 config-livewaf.php
-rw——- 1 www-data www-data 10556 Sep 1 10:24 config.php
-rw——- 1 www-data www-data 11456 Sep 9 08:01 config-synced.php
-rw——- 1 www-data www-data 1876863 Sep 8 10:01 config-transient.php
-rw-r–r– 1 www-data www-data 3875653 Aug 25 09:56 GeoLite2-Country.mmdb
-rw-r–r– 1 www-data www-data 133 Sep 8 22:01 .htaccess
-rw——- 1 www-data www-data 51 Sep 9 06:51 ips.php
-rw-r–r– 1 www-data www-data 170989 Aug 25 10:01 rules.php
-rw——- 1 www-data www-data 51 Aug 25 10:00 template.php”

So it doesn’t look like a false positive.