Plugin Author
AITpro
(@aitpro)
BPS automatically locks your root .htaccess file with 404 permissions after the .htaccess files are automatically updated. If your Host does not allow you to lock the root .htaccess file with 404 permissions then you can click the Turn Off AutoLock button on the BPS Edit/Upload/Download page. This will permanently prevent your root .htaccess file from being automatically locked again.
Is your host one of these 4 hosts in the link below that do not allow 404 permissions? Please post your host’s name if it is not one of the 4 hosts listed in the link below.
http://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/read-me-first-free/#root-htaccess-file-lock
Thread Starter
Hilltop
(@przwilson)
Thank you very much for the reply. Will turning off the AutoLock decrease the security of the site at all?
I have confirmed with the web host that they do not allow the .htaccess file to be set to anything other than 644 permissions. You can add this hosting company to the list: FatCow
They suggested that I could rename the file to .htaccess2 and that that would prevent it from being overwritten. Is this something we would want to do?
It sounds like turning off the AutoLock is all that we need to prevent any further issues – we just want to make sure that doing so won’t compromise the security of the site as well as the security measures that BPS Security is providing. Can you please just clarify that for us?
Thank you!
Plugin Author
AITpro
(@aitpro)
644 permissions are perfectly fine. 404 permissions add an extra bonus level of security, but if your host does not allow this then no big deal.
Yep, turning AutoLock off will prevent your root .htaccess from being locked again so this same issue/problem will not occur anymore.
Thread Starter
Hilltop
(@przwilson)
Ok got it, I will try this method at the next update. Thank you kindly for the support.