.htaccess creates ERROR 500 – INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

  • My hosting service, Arvixe, moved my site to a new and ever since I get ERROR 500 and tracked this down to the .htaccess file created by iThemes Security. I’ve deleted the plugin and reinstalled. I’ve deleted the .htaccess file, and re-created it from the Server Config Rules panel. Whenever the iThemes Security .htaccess file is present, the server fails.

    Viewing my server logs, I see many errors like this:

    [Tue Oct 03 17:40:22 2017] [alert] [client 172.68.142.249] /home1/reekes/public_html/.htaccess: The specified IP address is invalid.

    And this:

    [Tue Oct 03 17:07:31 2017] [crit] [client 172.68.142.249] (13)Permission denied: /home1/reekes/public_html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable

    System info:

    Wordpress Version 4.8.2

    iThemes Security Version 6.6.1

    Apache Version: 2.2.34

    Database server

    Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
    Server type: Percona Server
    Server version: 5.6.32-78.1 – Percona Server (GPL), Release 78.1, Revision 8bb53b6
    Protocol version: 10
    User: reekes@localhost
    Server charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

    Web server

    cpsrvd 11.60.0.48
    Database client version: libmysql – 5.1.73
    PHP extension: mysqli Documentation

    phpMyAdmin

    Version information: 4.3.8, latest stable version: 4.7.4

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