Comments on: Stop Wordpress Overwriting Custom .htaccess Rules

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:05:05 +0000

Hey, good tip. I was having the same problem. I just added my custom rules to the bottom. Everything has been fine since.

By: David Robertson

David Robertson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:15:41 +0000

Excellent. Thank you so much. And there was me thinking a plugin was at fault!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:33:47 +0000

Wow, thank you. This has been making me CRAZY!!!

By: gee

gee — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:46:23 +0000

Brilliant! Solved all my headaches! THANKS!

By: Phil Buckley

Phil Buckley — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:43:33 +0000

Ahhhh, thank you for saving me the trouble of trudging through the code.

By: WordPress: Prevent WP from Overwriting Custom htaccess Rules | WhyPad

WordPress: Prevent WP from Overwriting Custom htaccess Rules | WhyPad — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:24:06 +0000

[...] Thanks to Richard at Red Cardinal for pointing out the very simple fix to this problem here. [...]

By: pkmk

pkmk — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:11:58 +0000

thanks, it was getting silly this overwriting of my custom .htaccess ;]

By: markus

markus — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:16:29 +0000

thanks richard! fixed my problem!

By: James T

James T — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:57:23 +0000

Thank you very much for this.

It happened a few weeks ago and I assumed it was a server oddity that reset the .htaccess file.

But today I found that saving any post/page caused the .htaccess to take out all my custom rules.

I came here and it fixed it. Like you, I thought it made sense to only have 1 if statement rather than 2.

Many thanks.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:53:43 +0000

@Kenrick – simple answer to that is that WP cannot write to .htaccess if you chmod it. WP can actually write some useful stuff in there, and quite a few plugins use this functionality.

By: kenrick

kenrick — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:29:38 +0000

um, how about you just chmod the .htaccess file to not be writable by the server? as in read only access?

By: David Meade

David Meade — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:33:07 +0000

Thanks for checking, Richard.

I just last night got it to work. I’m actually not 100% sure what combination of things I was messing with finally got it to work.

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:57:28 +0000

Hi David

Have to say I wouldn’t know where to start. You’re .htaccess is a little more exotic than most.

Rgds
Richard

By: David Meade

David Meade — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:14:14 +0000

Hi Richard. I found this post thanks to a google search in hopes of fixing a wordpress/.htaccess issue I’m having. I wonder if you could shed some light on why my .htaccess file is preventing wordpress pingbacks from working.

After messing around with my .htaccess I actually got a pingback to work once … once . Something in here is breaking pingbacks.

Any insight you might have would be greatly appreciated.

My rewrite rules are:

# Use PHP5CGI as default
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/fcgiwrapper .php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^feed/?$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/DavidMeade [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^itunes/?$ http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=87086557 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^media/(.+)/?$ /post/post.php?mediaID=$1 [QSA,L]

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

By: Stupendous Man » Separate Feedburner feeds and categories feeds using .htaccess

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:20:18 +0000

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By: Raymond

Raymond — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:30:53 +0000

Hey thanks for the advice…I’ve been having trouble with that too…hopefully this will fix the problem!

By: Richard Hearne

Richard Hearne — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:37:54 +0000

@John – I’m happy that I’m not the only one to have come acropper with this. So far it seems to be holding out well for me – only reason I’ve needed to update my .htaccess file as been to ad some new referrers to ban.

@ Paul – yep. Generally you wont need this.

Rgds to both!

By: paul

paul — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:27:13 +0000

err in the brackets should be ‘’

By: paul

paul — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:25:51 +0000

hiya,
I do mine the same way, but one question the “” that you have ? Is this just to stop Apache crashing incase great sysadmin forgets to reinstall mod_rewrite ?
thanks,
paul

By: JLH

JLH — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:11:25 +0000

Thanks Richard, I’m off to see if I’ve got anything within the wordpress block.