Title: Causing htaccess error
Last modified: February 6, 2018

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# Causing htaccess error

 *  [tomabrams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomabrams/)
 * (@tomabrams)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-htaccess-error/)
 * Hi,
 * We’re having an issue every time WordPress or iThemes security auto-updates (
   not sure which is the root at this time), it’s function that appends the .htaccess
   file is producing a site wide error that disables all pages and functions. A 
   huge problem since it always happens unexpectedly and we scramble to remove the
   iThemes contributions to the .htaccess via FTP to get the site back. Then we 
   sit without protection waiting for it to auto update in hopes that it doesn’t
   repeat the problem.
 * Seems like other people have had this issue and from my reading Ithemes came 
   out with an update that fixed the issue however we continue to encounter the 
   same problem.
 * Can you please help us diagnose and resolve?
 * Thanks for your help.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcausing-htaccess-error%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [tomabrams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomabrams/)
 * (@tomabrams)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-htaccess-error/#post-9957676)
 * Following up on this. Need to get some solutions in place before the next auto-
   update to WordPress. Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [tomabrams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomabrams/)
 * (@tomabrams)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-htaccess-error/#post-9991873)
 * Following up again. Pretty disappointing to see other support posts that have
   been up for a day or two get responses but receive silence on my request from
   over 10 days ago. Can you please help with this issue?
 * Thanks.
 *  [stzehn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stzehn/)
 * (@stzehn)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-htaccess-error/#post-10133224)
 * Same Issue here. Every time .htaccess gets updated by IThemes Security due to
   a brute force attempt it now gets bugged. I have to delete it, deactivate the
   plugin reactivate the plugin to generate a correct new one.

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [stzehn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stzehn/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/causing-htaccess-error/#post-10133224)
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