Title: Errors after latest update
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Errors after latest update

 *  [justmattb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwbarker/)
 * (@mwbarker)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-after-latest-update/)
 * I keep getting the following error in my admin panel:
 * > FTP credentials don’t allow to write to file /home/mypath/public_html/.htaccess
   > W3 Total Cache Error: Files and directories could not be automatically created
   > to complete the installation.
   > Please execute commands manually
   >  or use FTP form to allow W3 Total Cache make
   > it automatically.
 * If I change permissions on my .htaccess file to allow writes from User/Group/
   World, the problem goes away. I would have thought doing this one would allow
   W3TC to complete what it needed to do since the error went away. When I went 
   back in and changed permissions on .htaccess to disallow writes from anybody,
   the error pops back up. This has never happened before, so I am assuming it has
   to do with a change in the latest version? Any ideas how to fix this? I definitely
   don’t want to leave my .htaccess file writeable.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [justmattb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mwbarker/)
 * (@mwbarker)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/errors-after-latest-update/#post-3762975)
 * Went in, changed .htaccess permissions to writeable then disabled the plugin.
   Re-enabled the plugin and removed write access to .htaccess again. So far, that
   seems to have cleared up the issue. Strange.

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