Wpengine & wordfence, database error and wp-cli freeze issue

Hello,

I’m using wp-engine for my wordpress sites. I have stumbled upon 2 problems with wordfence limited to when using wpengine.

1. Upon activation wordfence is giving me an error.

WordPress database error Unknown storage engine 'MEMORY' for query CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_wfls_role_counts

WordPress database error Unknown storage engine 'MyISAM' for query CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_wfls_role_counts

When inspecting the database through phpmyadmin, both storage engines are supported. Wpengine is running mysql 5.7, and it is their default mysql version.

I have tried with fresh installation as well as completely removing wordfence and reinstalling. This issue still occurs.

2. I having issues with WP-cli and wordfence. When interacting with my site through SSH, any wp-cli commands will cause the terminal to freeze unless wordfence is skipped with the “–skip-plugins=wordfence” site. There is no logging happening. When using the –debug flag with a wp-cli command I can see that the execution freezes when trying to load wordpress.

Details

• Tested both with 6.0.3 and 6.1.1 (latest as of writing this)
• Tested both with wordfence 7.
• Tested both with PHP 8.0 and PHP 7.4
• Tested with only wordfence plugin activated. Mu-plugins from wpengine are present and activated.

Any help to troubleshoot this further would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to reach out for any additional info

Kind regards

• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by kjetilb.
• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Yui.