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Hi,
I have three different websites, all with the same host, and all using the same theme with WordPress. I created two of them two-and-a-half years ago, and the third website just a couple of months ago.
I have installed Wordfence on all three sites, but the ‘optimize firewall’ method won’t work on the two older websites (it has optimized fine on the recent third website).
I got the following message on all three websites, but after refreshing about five minutes later on the third site, the firewall optimized (with the two older websites, the process never completes):
The changes have not yet taken effect. If you are using LiteSpeed or IIS as your web server or CGI/FastCGI interface, you may need to wait a few minutes for the changes to take effect since the configuration files are sometimes cached. You also may need to select a different server configuration in order to complete this step, but wait for a few minutes before trying. You can try refreshing this page.
I cannot use code, but I did look at the PHP versions in the web host’s control panel. The new site was on PHP 5.6, whereas the older sites were on something like PHP 5.4 (I can’t remember exactly, but it was a more recent version than the minimum version recommended by Wordfence).
I’ve upgraded both sites to PHP 5.6, but this hasn’t made any difference. I’ve also disabled other plugins, but this didn’t help either.
Does anyone have any suggestions on overcoming this problem which doesn’t involve changing code? Ideally I’d like to upgrade to premium Wordfence, but I don’t know if this is worthwhile if I can’t get the basics to work.
Many thanks.