Wordfence Install failure

  • Resolved stevejones13

    (@stevejones13)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    Wordfence could not register with the Wordfence scanning servers when it activated. You can try to fix this by deactivating Wordfence and then activating it again, so Wordfence will retry registering for you. If you keep seeing this error, it usually means your WordPress server can’t connect to our scanning servers, or your wfConfig database table cannot be created to save the key. You can try asking your host to allow your server to connect to noc1.wordfence.com or check the wfConfig database table and database privileges.

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  • Hi @stevejones13

    Please check the connectivity status in (Wordfence > Tools > Diagnostics > Connectivity).

    Keep me updated,
    Thanks.

    Thread Starter stevejones13

    (@stevejones13)

    These are the results:

    Wordfence Status General information about the Wordfence installation.
    Filesystem Ability to read/write various files.
    Checking if web server can read from ~/plugins/wordfence
    OK
    Checking if web server can write to ~/plugins/wordfence
    OK
    Checking if web server can read from ~/wp-content/wflogs
    File “wafRules.rules” does not exist
    Checking if web server can write to ~/wp-content/wflogs
    File “wafRules.rules” does not exist
    Wordfence Config Ability to save Wordfence settings to the database.
    Wordfence Firewall Current WAF configuration.
    MySQL Database version and privileges.
    PHP Environment PHP version, important PHP extensions.
    Connectivity Ability to connect to the Wordfence servers and your own site.
    Connecting to Wordfence servers (http)
    OK
    Connecting to Wordfence servers (https)
    OK
    Connecting back to this site
    wp_remote_post() test back to this server failed! Response was: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

    FYI, I installed WordPress and Wordfence for several other sites recently. All worked, apart from this one. I checked with the ISP who states: Hi Stephen,

    Thankyou for waiting.

    I have checked a couple of aspects and it looks like there may be an issue with the Wordfence scanning servers.

    I can see that had maintenance yesterday on their Twitter https://twitter.com/wordfence/status/988859822396207104

    If I try manually connecting I am unable to, please see below:

    –2018-04-25 10:57:28– https://noc1.wordfence.com/
    Resolving noc1.wordfence.com… 69.46.36.28
    Connecting to noc1.wordfence.com|69.46.36.28|:443…

    It may be worth dropping a message to Wordfence support to confirm if they are still having issues.

    Any questions please let me know.

    Hi @stevejones13
    Sorry for my late reply, are you still having this connectivity issue till now?
    I mean this one in particular:

    wp_remote_post() test back to this server failed! Response was: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

    Connecting back to the server is mandatory for several plugins and themes, I highly recommend reporting this issue to your hosting provider, also sometimes it’s a plugin that is preventing this test from being done, the safest way to do that is to install “Health Check” plugin and enable “Troubleshooting mode” if everything went okay, then you can re-enable plugins one by one to figure out the culprit. The good thing about “Heath Check” plugin is that it only affects your logged in session so that other visitors won’t be affected.

    Thanks.

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