Rule Update Failed

  • aehageman

    (@aehageman)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    Rule Update Failed

    No rules were updated. Please verify you have permissions to write to the /wp-content/wflogs directory.

    File permission for the directory are 775
    changed to 777 same message
    rules.php file permissions are 664
    ips.php 660
    config.php 660
    attack-data.php 660
    .htaccess 664

    VPS running -CentOS 6 + cPanel

    When I installed and then activated I received this error message.
    Warning: curl_exec() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/aehageman/public_html/arkansascongenitalheartdefectcoalition.org/wp-content/plugins/wordfence/vendor/wordfence/wf-waf/src/lib/http.php on line 329

    The site in the public_html directory is working.
    I followed the instructions and attempted to configure all the wordpress installs in sub-directories first. All of these have the same issue.

    I copied the rules file to the wflogs directory with no luck.
    Changed the firewall status also.

    Most of this was done after spending over and hour reading documents file.
    https://docs.wordfence.com/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=pull+down+rules&fulltext=Search

    deactivated all plugins
    cleared cache

    I keep getting hacked by a spammer/ hacker. They send out 5000 emails per day,my server limit.
    We can find their files and remove them (maybe). but they keep getting back in.

    We are attempting to lock down each WP install first, with WordFence.

    Thank you.

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  • Thread Starter aehageman

    (@aehageman)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Will working on securing the server, I found my admin had added these
    passthru, popen, proc_open, parse_ini_file, show_source, symlink, exec,system,curl_exec,curl_multi_exec
    to
    disable_functions
    in the PHP configuration

    I removed curl_exec from the list and either this fixed the problem or the time did.
    Not sure which.

    wfalaa

    (@wfalaa)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,
    Regarding the file permissions issue, you should also make sure that the owner of this file/directory is the same user of your web server, by default on centos 6, I believe it’s “apache” in case you are using Apache web server.

    And yes, you must have “curl_exec” function enabled to allow performing a cURL session.

    Thanks.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by wfalaa.
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