Title: Bizarre error with htaccess
Last modified: November 9, 2020

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# Bizarre error with htaccess

 *  [cuttlefishjones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cuttlefishjones/)
 * (@cuttlefishjones)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-error-with-htaccess/)
 * Hi,
    I am wondering whether anyone could shine a light on an issue I encountered
   across all the websites I manage. Earlier today all of the sites started responding
   with 404’s on all links within the sites. The front page was OK though. Just 
   links.
 * Whilst I was investigating the issue I saw that the WordPress entry in htaccess
   was missing across all the sites. When I replaced this the permalinks began working
   again as you would expect.
 * Initially I thought a plugin was responsible but another site with the same plugin
   did not behave the same way. I use Installatron to manage updates and backups
   and the only other plugin with access to the htaccess file is iThemes security.
   We fell foul of the alpha pushout earlier on this month. Would that cause this
   behavior? I have written a cron jobbed script to check that these entries exist
   and if they don’t it appends it to the file.
 * Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated.

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bizarre-error-with-htaccess/)
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