Title: htaccess change breaks phpmyadmin
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# htaccess change breaks phpmyadmin

 *  [iltdevunit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iltdevunit/)
 * (@iltdevunit)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-change-breaks-phpmyadmin/)
 * Hi,
 * One of the additions to htaccess by Better WP Security causes Javascript to fail
   in PHPMyAdmin. This means that the login box is not show.
 * PHPMyAdmin loads the Javascript using arrays in the _GET querystring. The following
   line in htaccess prevents this:
 * `RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\[|\]|\(|\)|<|>|ê|"|;|\?|\*|=$).* [NC,OR]`
 * Is there a way I can make an exception for phpmyadmin?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  Thread Starter [iltdevunit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iltdevunit/)
 * (@iltdevunit)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-change-breaks-phpmyadmin/#post-4715549)
 * `RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F,L]`
 * This causes a problem too.

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 * [phpmyadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/phpmyadmin/)

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 * Last reply from: [iltdevunit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iltdevunit/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-change-breaks-phpmyadmin/#post-4715549)
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