Title: Error message, but it works?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Error message, but it works?

 *  [lovingboth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lovingboth/)
 * (@lovingboth)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-but-it-works/)
 * When I activate it, I get a…
 * “Stop XML-RPC Attack Plugin Error: Could not write to .htaccess file. Check your
   file permissions and then re-generate your .htaccess from the plugin settings
   page.”
 * .. message. But the .htaccess file has, in fact, been written to.
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-message-but-it-works/)
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