Title: .htaccess changes itself Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # .htaccess changes itself * [arrowj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arrowj/) * (@arrowj) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-changes-itself/) * Greetings, * After upgrading to 2.2 I have been experiencing the “index-extra.php dashboard error” as discussed in other threads. But here is my strange problem. I used the sugested workaround for this problem by changing my .htaccess file. I added the following text: * SecFilterInheritance Off * It works and everything is as it should be, but every once in a while it stops working, and when I open my .htaccess file my changes have been erased! Any idea why this is happening? * Also, are the developers of WordPress going to address this issue or will we be forever looking for a way to deal with the problem or having to contact our hosts? * Thanks in advance! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/) * (@otto42) * WordPress.org Admin * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-changes-itself/#post-588816) * After you add the changes to that file, give it file permissions of 444 so that other systems can’t change it by accident or design. * And no, no fix will be coming from WordPress because this is not a WordPress problem. There is no workaround, your host is running mod_security which is intentionally made to interfere and break these sorts of things. Switch to a host that doesn’t run mod_security or use the .htaccess rule. * Thread Starter [arrowj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arrowj/) * (@arrowj) * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-changes-itself/#post-588837) * I changed the permissions. I appreciate your response. I don’t really know anything abut mod_security, but as long as the .htaccess fix works I can live with that. * I read that it was a problem on the end of the host, but I thought it was because of something the WordPress developers changed. Your answer is very succinct and clears this up to my satisfaction…thanks! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘.htaccess changes itself’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/) * [index-extra.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/index-extra-php/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [arrowj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arrowj/) * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-changes-itself/#post-588837) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics