Title: Manually Refresh Rules Last modified: August 5, 2019 --- # Manually Refresh Rules * Resolved [trudslev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trudslev/) * (@trudslev) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-refresh-rules/) * I am running the latest version (7.3.6) on the latest WordPress (5.2.2). * I have been presented with this warning for a while: * “The last rules update for the Wordfence Web Application Firewall was unsuccessful. The last successful update check was 3. July 2019 11:17, so this site may be missing new rules added since then. You may wait for the next automatic attempt at 7. August 2019 11:18 or try to Manually Update by clicking the “Manually Refresh Rules” button below the Rules list.” * When I try and update the rules manually I get this message: * “No rules were updated. Your website has reached the maximum number of rule update requests. Please try again later.” * I’ve tried deleting the plugin and reinstalling. I’ve also deleted the files rules.php in the wflogs which was downloaded automatically, but the warning stays. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [WFGerroald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfgerald/) * (@wfgerald) * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-refresh-rules/#post-11805050) * Hey [@trudslev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trudslev/), * Can you please manually check the rules.php file’s timestamp in wp-content/wflogs/ to make sure it’s not updating? I’m wondering if this may be a false error. * Thanks, * Gerroald * [vegasmerch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegasmerch/) * (@vegasmerch) * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-refresh-rules/#post-11904806) * I’ve been having the same problem. Rules have not updated since 7/22/19. I’ve taken a pcap of the update transaction and the VPS appears to successfully reach noc4.wordfence.com although the session is SSL encrypted, so I do not have any visibility into the actual transaction. * edit to add: My rules file shows the last update on 7/22 at 02:22 UTC, symptoms are the same as poster above. Manual update indicates that I have used up all of my update attempts. - This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by [vegasmerch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegasmerch/). * Thread Starter [trudslev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trudslev/) * (@trudslev) * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-refresh-rules/#post-11912481) * I had reinstalled it and thought that solved the problem, but it came back. * Error: * “The last rules update for the Wordfence Web Application Firewall was unsuccessful. The last successful update check was 25. August 2019 10:01, so this site may be missing new rules added since then. You may wait for the next automatic attempt at 15. September 2019 09:57 or try to Manually Update by clicking the “Manually Refresh Rules” button below the Rules list.” * and an “ls -l”: * “-rw——- 1 www-data www-data 40083 Sep 8 13:39 attack-data.php -rw——- 1 www-data www-data 2157 Sep 9 06:51 config-livewaf.php -rw——- 1 www-data www-data 10556 Sep 1 10:24 config.php -rw——- 1 www-data www-data 11456 Sep 9 08:01 config-synced. php -rw——- 1 www-data www-data 1876863 Sep 8 10:01 config-transient.php -rw-r– r– 1 www-data www-data 3875653 Aug 25 09:56 GeoLite2-Country.mmdb -rw-r–r– 1 www-data www-data 133 Sep 8 22:01 .htaccess -rw——- 1 www-data www-data 51 Sep 9 06:51 ips.php -rw-r–r– 1 www-data www-data 170989 Aug 25 10:01 rules.php -rw——- 1 www-data www-data 51 Aug 25 10:00 template.php” * So it doesn’t look like a false positive. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Manually Refresh Rules’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/wordfence/assets/icon.svg?rev=2070865) * [Wordfence Security - Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordfence/reviews/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [trudslev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trudslev/) * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manually-refresh-rules/#post-11912481) * Status: resolved