The .htaccess file is what allows your permalinks to work. Notice how the links to individual posts on your blog give you 404 errors? That’s because you keep deleting the .htaccess file.
You shouldn’t delete things without knowing what they do.
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pr0nto
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Touche. That’s what was causing the /categories part not loading. Still, there’s the issues with trying to load /stats every so often. I think it also affects /feed. This is noticeable every week or so and only gets fixed when I delete the htaccess (which, as you pointed out, screws over more important parts of my page)
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pr0nto
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The /stats are unaccessible again (404). Any idea why this might be occurring?
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pr0nto
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I’m still having /stats issues as well as /feed. If I rename/delete the .htaccess file, stats is accessible. Is there any way I can fix this issue, or something I can put into the .htaccess to allow access to those features?
What is the content of the .htaccess file?
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pr0nto
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# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Change it to this:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/stats.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Afterwards, set the permissions of the file to 444, so WordPress won’t modify it.
You won’t be able to make a page beginning with “stats” in WordPress though.
Now the /feed, on the other hand, WordPress handles. You shouldn’t need to change anything for it.
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pr0nto
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Awesome! That didn’t work, but I did use that to help me Google for something. It led to a help file by my webhost that expanded on that code a bit more and works perfectly. Thanks for the 444 reminder though, I would have totally forgotten.
