TonyAndrews

Yes, it was also the .user.ini file that needed to be reverted. Once I did that the site came back and I was able to reinstall Wordfence. It’s all good now.

Thanks for your help.

Renaming the plugin folder doesn’t change the symptoms. It doesn’t look like a normal Wordfence lockout. It looks like WF has added lines to my .htaccess file, should I remove those?

Ugh – I really don’t want to try a manual install of Wordfence and risk just making things worse. I’m a developer, but not a wp/php guy. I guess I’ll try GoDaddy support and see if they can help.

Yes, same wordfence error with all plugins disabled. Just tried in an incognito window – same result. I also moved all themes (other than default) to a new subdir – no change.

No change. I had also tried tried renaming “plugins” and creating an empty plugins directory – also no change. That should have turned off everything, right?

There’s also wordfence-waf.php in the wordpress root dir. Does that need to be removed or edited? Here’s the contents of that:

<?php
// Before removing this file, please verify the PHP ini setting <code>auto_prepend_file</code> does not point to this.

// This file was the current value of auto_prepend_file during the Wordfence WAF installation (Thu, 21 Apr 2016 01:38:14 +0000)
if (file_exists('/var/chroot/home/content/protect.php')) {
	include_once '/var/chroot/home/content/protect.php';
}
if (file_exists('/home/content/p/p/h/pphones/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/waf/bootstrap.php')) {
	define("WFWAF_LOG_PATH", '/home/content/p/p/h/pphones/html/wordpress/wp-content/wflogs/');
	include_once '/home/content/p/p/h/pphones/html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/waf/bootstrap.php';
}
?>

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by TonyAndrews.

Can you tell me how to do that through the godaddy file manager? I’m unable to sign in to wp.

Yes, it is. I tried renaming the plugins directory temporarily, but the symptom was the same.