Title: Key Error Message
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Key Error Message

 *  Resolved [lkpub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lkpub/)
 * (@lkpub)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/key-error-message/)
 * Getting this error message on a new WP site and install…
 * An error occurred
 * Your options have been saved, but we encountered a problem. You left your API
   key blank, so we tried to get you a free API key from the Wordfence servers. 
   However we encountered a problem fetching the free key: We received an error 
   response when trying to contact the Wordfence scanning servers. The HTTP status
   code was [0] and the curl error number was [7] and the error from CURL was: Failed
   to connect to ( MY IP ADDRESS ) Permission denied
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  Thread Starter [lkpub](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lkpub/)
 * (@lkpub)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/key-error-message/#post-4307142)
 * Never mind… I figured it out… it was a sever issue for my website…
 * Thanx anyway… =}
 *  Plugin Author [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * (@mmaunder)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/key-error-message/#post-4307339)
 * Glad to hear this is resolved.
 * Regards,
 * Mark.

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 * Last reply from: [Mark Maunder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmaunder/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/key-error-message/#post-4307339)
 * Status: resolved