.htaccess corrupted with most recent blocked IP

  • This plugin has been working fine for a couple of months. However, late last night it blocked an IP and instead of appending it to the blocked list it cleared my entire .htaccess except for the following:

    # BEGIN Brute Force Login Protection
    <FilesMatch “.*\.(php|html?|css|js|jpe?g|png|gif)$”>
    order deny,allow
    deny from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (blocked IP)
    </FilesMatch>
    # END Brute Force Login Protection

    Which brought my site down. Any idea why? Panicked “the site’s down” calls on Saturday afternoon are no fun. ??

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  • Plugin Author Fresh-Media

    (@jan-paul-kleemans)

    Hi,

    Thanks for your post. Sorry for my late response.

    Because the plugin directly writes to the .htaccess, it sometimes corrupts the file (when the server is under high pressure), which is of course a serious problem which I try to solve in a new version. But it is hard for me to find time to work on the plugin. I hope I can finish it soon though.

    JP

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