Title: Missing config.php in wflogs Last modified: March 10, 2017 --- # Missing config.php in wflogs * [herringcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herringcreative/) * (@herringcreative) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-config-php-in-wflogs/) * On two of my sites, the firewall is not working and I have the message. * **We were unable to write to ~/wp-content/wflogs/ which the WAF uses for storage. Please update permissions on the parent directory so the web server can write to it.** * After comparing several of my sites where the firewall was active, I realized that in those two sites my wp-content/wflogs/config.php file is missing. Not sure how to upload or reset the missing file. * I tried to delete and then reinstall Wordfence, but it was still missing. How can I fix this problem? Thanks! Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [yndmgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yndmgo/) * (@yndmgo) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-config-php-in-wflogs/#post-8916877) * Hi herringcreative, * It seems the user the web server runs as doesn’t have write access to the wflogs folder. * Can you check which user is the owner of the wflogs folder? – go to the wp-content folder – run the command: _ls -al_ – check the owner/group and permissions for the wflogs folder * Is it the same user the web server runs as? – _ps -aef|grep apache_ – in the output, the username is at the beginning of the line(s) * If the above gives you 2 distinct users, permissions on the folder should be adjusted, or the owner should be changed to the web server related user. * Let me know if this helps * Thread Starter [herringcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herringcreative/) * (@herringcreative) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-config-php-in-wflogs/#post-8918708) * yndmgo, * The command Is -al didn’t work, I got an error saying it is not understood. * I checked the permissions of the wflogs folder and it was 775. I rechecked each of the permissions of the files within the folders and found the .htaccess was 660 rather than 664. Once I changed that the config.php showed up on my hosting provider files, but not on my ftp program. * [yndmgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yndmgo/) * (@yndmgo) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-config-php-in-wflogs/#post-8922647) * [@herringcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/herringcreative/) * Sorry I should’ve asked a few questions before starting to throw commands at you! * How do you connect to the server hosting your WP site in order to see the files? – via ssh using putty, for example? – via an administration interface of your hosting provider? * How do you check the files permissions? * In case you connect via ssh, the commands I gave you should work. Just to be sure, in _ls -al_ both “l” are lowercase “L” (the font on this page makes it look like capital “i”) and there is a space between “ls” and “-al”. * What permissions do you see for the newly created config.php file? Maybe the FTP user you connect with doesn’t have sufficient access rights to view the file. * Which owner/group do you see for the wflogs folder? In case you don’t have access to that information (using the _ls -al_ command), you might want to check with your hosting provider that the owner: - is the user the web server runs as - OR - belongs to the same group as the user the web server runs as * If there is any confusion, please let me know. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Missing config.php in wflogs’ 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 * 2 participants * Last reply from: [yndmgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yndmgo/) * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-config-php-in-wflogs/#post-8922647) * Status: not resolved