Title: Manually Refresh Rules FAILURE
Last modified: December 21, 2025

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# Manually Refresh Rules FAILURE

 *  Resolved [Stephen Brust](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webkatdesign/)
 * (@webkatdesign)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-refresh-rules-failure/)
 * Yes I am getting this message on my site “_The last rules update for the Wordfence
   Web Application Firewall was unsuccessful. The last successful update check was
   February 2, 2025 9:23 pm, so this site may be missing new rules added since then.
   You may wait for the next automatic attempt at December 22, 2025 1:19 pm or try
   to [Manually Update](https://www.gdaonline.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=WordfenceWAF&subpage=waf_options#wf-option-wafRules)
   by clicking the “Manually Refresh Rules” button below the Rules list._“
   When 
   I attempt to manually refresh the rules I get this message “_No rules were updated.
   Please verify you have permissions to write to the /wp-content/wflogs directory._”
   I have triple checked my permissions and they read 755, I have even changed them
   to 777 and still NOT successfully refreshing rules. Can you tell me what I am
   doing wrong?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fmanually-refresh-rules-failure%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [wfpeter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfpeter/)
 * (@wfpeter)
 * [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-refresh-rules-failure/#post-18764901)
 * Hi [@webkatdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webkatdesign/), thanks
   for your detailed message.
 * I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong and if rules updates have been working
   fine up until now, the permissions you’ve tried are likely to be enough unless
   something has changed at the host’s end.
 * Manually removing the **wp-content/wflogs** folder’s contents (or the whole wflogs
   folder) via FTP or hosting file manager should stand a good chance of solving
   the issue as a file may have become corrupt and unwritable. Wordfence should 
   try to recreate the folder and files automatically within 30 minutes.
 * Thanks,
   Peter.

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 * Last activity: [5 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-refresh-rules-failure/#post-18764901)
 * Status: resolved