Enabling Falcon is usually just clicking the button to enable it. The most you have to do is manually edit your htaccess file if its not writable. We detect if your server is running nginx and tell you about it if we find it is. Please confirm with your webhost of you are or not. Let me know what they say.
tim
Hi,
actually I was just dealing with the same issue. Falcon is definitely great now that I was finally able to enable it by changing the code a bit (actually, 16 bits ;).
The problem is that WF assumes that it’s enough to have $sapi == ‘fpm-fcgi’ to consider server running nginx. Which is a wrong assumption, because you can run fpm-fcgi with apache just as well. And that’s exactly what I’m running. It could be also a bug in the code (hence, the assumption, because it also checks $_SERVER[‘SERVER_SOFTWARE’] as an extra test).
So here’s what you need to do to fix it:
1. Open wp-content/plugins/wordfence/lib/wfUtils.php
2. Go to line 615
3. Replace “||” with “&&”
Here’s the code that you are going to be altering for the reference:
public static function isNginx(){
$sapi = php_sapi_name();
$serverSoft = $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'];
if($sapi == 'fpm-fcgi' || stripos($serverSoft, 'nginx') !== false){
return true;
}
What you’re doing is changing the test so that it requires that both sapi equals fpm-fcgi and server software says nginx.
Interesting. Let me get the dev team to take a look.
tim
(ref FB683)
thanks, let me know.
I am certainly using Apache Web Server hosted on AWS virtual server.
Did you get any update from development team?
I have made the changes as described by aurimas_m and I am pass one huddle but still the Falcon is not getting enabled (it is enabled from the plugin but not showing any performance improvements)
Any assistance would be appreciated. I have tried few different ways as described in different forums but no success.
