Title: Existing htaccess.?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Existing htaccess.?

 *  [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-instructions-1/)
 * I have an existing htaccess file with 1000s of 301s in it.
 * Should I delete them all before I get started? ie, will they mess the plugin 
   up?

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