Plugin Wordfence alert

  • Hallo everybody, please help…. Wordfence alerted me to the risk “Found a publicly accessible configuration, backup or log file: wp-content/debug.log
    Can you please advise me what to do about this? Should I close the debug? And where? I am not very experienced in this.

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  • Hello, that file wp-content/debug.log is created if WordPress debugging is enabled. Wordfence should show a Hide File button in the results notification for this file. You can click that button and that should help resolve the issue.

    The longer term solution would be to turn off debugging if it is no longer needed. You would need FTP to access your website files and look for the wp-config.php file in the folder where your WordPress website is installed (this folder is usually public_html). Please download a copy of wp-config.php as a backup, then edit the file by looking for:

    define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );

    Please change the line above to the following to turn off debugging:

    define( 'WP_DEBUG', false );

    Please check with your web host support if you need help accessing, making a backup of or making amendments to the wp-config.php file.

    For any future Wordfence queries, please post on the plugin support forum via this link – https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/wordfence/

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter Verca Schmid

    (@verca1)

    Good. Thank you very much for your advice. Good luck for you ??

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