.htaccess automatically changes causing 500 error

  • Hi,

    I apologize if a solution has already been posted in other areas of this forum but I was unable to find help, hence my post.

    I keep getting a 500 error on all pages/posts on my site (including the dashboard and admin area). The only cause that I can see is that my htaccess file keeps being modified somehow by a script from this below (which works)

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
    # END WordPress
    </IfModule>

    to this:
    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress
    </IfModule>

    which doesn’t work and causes 500 errors throughout my site.

    I have tried to CHMOD the htaccess file to read only (doesn’t work either).

    2 questions:
    1. Why does this happen automatically?

    2. How can I stop it? It is doing my head in having to manually copy over a backup every time it happens.

    Thanks in anticipation

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