Comments on: Why does WordPress rewrite .htaccess on its own ?

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:21:23 +0000

Thanks for writing about this. I had two support tickets open all day and no one could figure this out. I opened up the .htaccess file and it had no WordPress components in it. Then I added them in and everything worked out just fine! This saved me a ton of hassle.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:36:34 +0000

Thanks for dropping your comments alaJoAnn.

Knowing that I was able to help someone makes my day

By: alaJoAnn

alaJoAnn — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:03:30 +0000

That just happened to me, with all my posts redirecting to the home page. Luckily I found your fix. I will sleep tonight. Thank you!

By: Newt

Newt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:47:32 +0000

We’re hosted at Bluehost but we are having the almost identical problem: every time we fix the .htaccess file, WP rewrites it a few days later: and then the site crashes with a 505 error. It’s like WP is committing suicide!

By: Alfred

Alfred — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:59:10 +0000

Update since the comment bought up the topic

I found out that it was the fault of my old webhost (netwayweb/unitech. For some reason the .htaccess would be reset by the host. Finally changed over to bluehost and never had the problem since.

Changing the permalink uses the WordPress engine to rewrite the htaccess file
thats the easy solution, you could write htaccess yourself if it was blank and you know how to..

By: Modern Technologies

Modern Technologies — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:03:51 +0000

WordPress have mod rewrite module which make blog post URL with editable from admin instead of post ID which is very important for Search Engine Ranking but your problem seems strange to solve by changing permalink. Maybe you used something special character in permalink which breaks the URL anyhow.

By: Strictly Online Biz

Strictly Online Biz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:06:06 +0000

So far so good, I haven’t had any problem accessing your site at all. It loads pretty fast in my opinion.

By: Juscelino M. Acevedo

Juscelino M. Acevedo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:56:09 +0000

I was in a similar situation as far as hosting, and I recently moved both of my blogs over to Host Gator (http://www.hostgator.com). So far I have no regrets, but like I stated, this is a recent change so it too soon to judge. Price is good though.
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By: Tilføj link

Tilføj link — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:22:19 +0000

Nice tricks…

Special the one about WordPress 404 error…. I looked it up at my own blogs, and I have learned something here.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:42:43 +0000

On a sidenote, ProjectWonderful kept sending me suspension notices on ad boxes due to downtimes. Sent them a mail and got replied within 30 min !!! Damn if only all networks had service like that.