FBRFG not updating htaccess rewrite rules

I came across this plugin from the wptavern post – it looks awesome but unfortunately I have had some problems generating and installing favicons for atmac.org using this plugin.

Following the process as described I was walked through the generation and it appeared to complete correctly, saying “Favicon installed!” at the end. When I visit the Appearance > Favicon page it says “The favicon is up and ready.” and displays a correct-looking preview. Checking the HEAD section of the html page shows me a bunch of correctly formatted links. But there are no favicons visible on my site, and pointing my browser at atmac.org/favicon.ico gives me a 404 error.

Some poking around determines that my uploads directory has a subdirectory called ‘fbrgf’ which contains 21 images, plus browserconfig.xml plus the preview. The images appear to contain the correct contents.

There are no relevant rewrite rules in the .htaccess file though, and I was not prompted to add anything in, so I see why the actual files (hidden in contents/uploads/fbrgf) are not being seen. I suspect that the iThemes Security plugin may be preventing your plugin from writing to .htaccess, but if it is iThemes Security I had no luck trying to deactivate the relevant rules.

Does the plugin check that the rewrite rules have been successfully added to the htaccess file? I’ve seen other plugins give messages asking me to manually add things when they failed at writing directly – that’s a good way to get around problems like this.

Thanks for what looks like a wonderfully useful plugin – much appreciated.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/favicon-by-realfavicongenerator/