.htaccess not writeable

  • Resolved kikaweb

    (@kikaweb)


    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,
    I’ve installed your plug-in on several websites, without a problem. Actually, it is one of the few plug-ins I install on every WordPress install. On one particular site, however, all of a sudden, I got a warning from another plug-in (W3C Total Cache) the htaccess couldn’t be modified. As a matter of fact, my htaccess permissions were set to 444.
    If I change the permission to 644, after less than a minute it reverts to 444.
    At first I thought my site had been hacked, since I know of at least one kind of attack that sets htaccess permission to 444. But after several Wordfence scans and inspecting a local copy of my install, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the case.
    I tried to deactivate every plug-in and re-activate them one by one, and the plug-in causing the problem was indeed “Disable XML-RPC-API”.
    Honestly, I don’t know why it happens only on this install – I have 3 websites on the same shared server, and the respective htaccess are not giving me any trouble.
    Do you have any hint about what could cause this problem? Any known incompatibility.
    Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Author Amin Nazemi

    (@aminnz)

    Hello, @kikaweb
    This plugin is changing your “htaccess” file permission to READ-ONLY (0444) to secure your website.
    If you have a problem with other plugins disable “Disable XML-RPC-API” plugin and let other plugins add their code then enable the plugin again.
    If you keep the “htaccess” file permission to 644 you can have a security breach.

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