updating translatepress causes htaccess rewrite

Hello,

Since this looks a lot like a conflict with some other code, the first/next recommended step is the conflict test (ideally in a staging environment):

??*Briefly* disable all other plugins and enable the default Twenty Twenty theme. Please also disable all add-ons. If this fixes the problem, as it probably will, enable everything one by one, checking each time to see when the problem returns.

Please let us know when you find the conflict so that we can take a look and see what we can do about it.

Translatepress dont write any htaccess. so it may be a plugin that detect your homepage as /en and put a redirect to it.

Cheers,

We also have exactly the same issue after updating. This is not an issue with other plugins.

Translatepress is rewriting the htaccess file as described, depending on the language selected in the translatepress plugin on the frontend.

If I select Spanish (es) in TranslatePress I get

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /es/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /es/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

If I select German (de) in TranslatePress on the front end I get

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /de/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /de/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

As described by the OP this is causing Internal Server Error 500. Please resolve ASAP.

I’ve read it is something to do with WordPress updating permalinks

Adding this to my child theme functions.php seems to have worked (so far):

add_filter('flush_rewrite_rules_hard','__return_false');

Hello @cetsat

Could you please list the plugins that you are using ? As i stated before.. Translatepress don’t write anything into .htaccess but something do.

So listing your own plugins and other valid information like: Your wordpress version as well with the php version may help us find what is causing this.

Thanks for reporting this. I will forward it to our development team to look into it.

Cheers,

WordPress 5.4.2
PHP 7.4.6

Astra PRO
Elementor, Elementor PRO
Jetpack
Media Library Categories
Official Facebook Pixel
Rank Math SEO
Translate Press
WooCommerce
WooCommerce Load More Products
WooCommerce Services
WooCommerce Stripe Gateway
WP Rocket

WordPress 5.5.1
PHP Version 7.3.23

Elementor, Elementor PRO
Jetpack
Translate Press
WooCommerce
WP Super Cache
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WCgatewaymp
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The Events Calendar: Community Events Tickets
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Give – Donation Plugin
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Same problem here. Translatepress rewrites Htaccess rules and add /es or /de before index.php and it breaks the site.

It hasn’t been fixed for over a year now and I will have to decide to use another translation plugin if this issue will not be fixed by your developers

This needs an urgent update.