Title: Not writeable
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Not writeable

 *  [leonjacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leonjacobs/)
 * (@leonjacobs)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-writeable-2/)
 * Just installed wordpress. My host says that .htaccess is enabled.
    Yet, I keep
   getting ‘if this file was writeable, you could edit it’. What gives?

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 *  [cmm225](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmm225/)
 * (@cmm225)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-writeable-2/#post-501762)
 * “Writeable” talks about the permissions set You can change the permissions via
   FTP to 666 so that wordpress can write to the .htaccess file, or take the code
   that you are given when you change the permalink structure and paste it into 
   the .htaccess file.
 * Although if your permissions are 444, you’ll have to change them anyway because
   you won’t be able to write to it either.
 *  [cmm225](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmm225/)
 * (@cmm225)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-writeable-2/#post-501763)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [leonjacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leonjacobs/)
 * (@leonjacobs)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-writeable-2/#post-501765)
 * Ok. I assume you mean the permissions are actually set in .htaccess?
    Will this
   also enable me to edit say, the footer of the blog?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-writeable-2/#post-501766)
 * Have a look at [Changing_File_Permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions).
 * File permissions are not set in .htaccess. But .htaccess has to have proper permissions
   for WordPress to automatically update it when changing [Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks).

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## Tags

 * [enable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/enable/)
 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [writeable](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/writeable/)

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 * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-writeable-2/#post-501766)
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