claghorndesigns

I GOT IT!!!! There was a php.ini file within the wp-admin folder that still had the append command to the old wordfence-waf.php file. I deleted it and I can access the backend of the site again. I removed the reference in the php.ini, .htaccess and the user.ini within the root folder but it was till getting referenced within the wp-admin folder’s php.ini file. I hope this helps someone else as this has cost me about 3 days of going insane. Thanks @wfpeter for your help.

Hi @wfpeter, thanks for the quick response. Just so I’m clear before I go diving through the folders/files, the error would be coming from a file (.htaccess, user.ini, php.ini) not from the database? The sites I must move to the upgraded web servers have had WordFence running on them for up to 8 years and I privately host them. Thanks for any insight!

I took out reference to old host path below with “…” but this is the error in the new host server logs

[16-Oct-2023 18:44:22 UTC] PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 [16-Oct-2023 18:44:22 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Failed opening required ‘/…/…/public_html/wordfence-waf.php’ (include_path=’.:/opt/cpanel/ea-php80/root/usr/share/pear’) in Unknown on line 0