• Would anyone know why this is happening?

    I’m using Shoreditch and all of a sudden there seems to be an issue with the htaccess file naming itself the same as the index file? – As I’ve been told by hosting company.

    It only seems to be happening with the front page and they seem to think it has something to do with coding.

    Unsure if its a Shoreditch thing or something else?

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  • Thread Starter Missy

    (@4wdclub)

    Sorry forgot to add that the issue is that a download box comes up when you go to the front page only. If i use a link like website.com/example this works fine

    sacredpath

    (@sacredpath)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi @4wdclub, I can’t find any other reports of this and no bug reports on it, so I’m thinking there might be another issue going on although I’m a bit lost as to what that might be as I’m lost as to how the theme itself could rewrite or rename a .htaccess file.

    Are you using Shoreditch as it is, or are you using a Child Theme? Have you made any modifications to any of the theme files? If you have made modification, I would rename the Shoreditch folder to something else and then try the following three suggestions.

    1. Disable all plugins on your site and see if the issue goes away. If it does, then re-enable each plugin, one at a time, and check in between activations to see which plugin is causing the issue.

    2. Uninstall and re-install Shoreditch and see if that corrects the issue.

    3. Go to Dashboard > Updates and Re-install WordPress.

    Thread Starter Missy

    (@4wdclub)

    Thanks for your response @sacredpath. It’s beyond my expertise. I have been deleting plugins that I thought may have been causing the issue. It’s an active business website so I am worried about changing too many things.

    I have got CSS under the customizer but I havent changed any files directly and am not using a child theme.

    sacredpath

    (@sacredpath)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Get your .htaccess file as you need it, and then ask your web host to change the permissions on that file to 444, which will prevent it from being overwritten (makes it read only).

    Also ask your web host to look and make sure that nothing has been added between the # BEGIN WordPress and # End WordPress comments. What should be between those two is what is listed under Basic WP on this WordPress Codex page. Hopefully they will do that for you.

    This will mean that you cannot make any deep configuration changes, such as changing the permalink structure without first changing the file permission on .htaccess back to 644.

    Thread Starter Missy

    (@4wdclub)

    @sacredpath thankyou very much for your help! I’ll get onto this

    sacredpath

    (@sacredpath)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    You are welcome, and let me know how things go with it.

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