Title: Question before installing
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Question before installing

 *  Resolved [borderline11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borderline11/)
 * (@borderline11)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-before-installing/)
 * will this plugin mess up or upload a wp-config file?
    the reason I’m asking is
   because after uploading website defender wordpress security, this plugin gave
   me the white screen of death because all of the sudden a blank wp-config.php 
   file appeared on my wp files…. Luckily I had my config file outside the wp folder,
   just had to delete the blank one in order to bring my site back.
 * I hope having the wp-config.php file outside the wp folder won’t mess up with
   BulletProof, right?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security/)

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 *  Thread Starter [borderline11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borderline11/)
 * (@borderline11)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-before-installing/#post-3146736)
 * Also, this plugin it says it creates .htaccess files. I already have one .htaccess
   file on the root of my site. Is this gonna rewrite my original file?
 *  Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/)
 * (@aitpro)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-before-installing/#post-3146781)
 * Nope BPS does not do anything with the wp-config.php or need to use the wp-config.
   php for anything. BPS will protect the wp-config.php file with .htaccess protection
   if the wp-config.php is in a publicly accessible directory. If you have moved
   your wp-config.php file to a protected Server directory then BPS will not see
   it at all, which is fine because it is already protected by doing that move.
 * If you already have .htaccess files/code and you want to combine your htaccess
   code with the BPS htaccess code then first download copies of your htaccess files
   as backups. And yes BPS would overwrite that .htaccess file so be sure to back
   it up first.
 * BPS has a built-in htaccess file editor on the Edit/Upload/Download tab page.
 * What i recommend is that you do this.
    1. Make backups of your .htaccess file
   or files first and save them to your computer. 2. Click the AutoMagic buttons
   on the Security Modes page. 3. Go to the Edit/Upload/Download Tab page and click
   on the secure.htaccess tab. This file is the file that was created by clicking
   the Create secure.htaccess File button. 4. You can combine your .htaccess code
   into this newly created Master .htaccess file. 5. Go back to the Security Modes
   tab page and activate BulletProof Mode for your Root folder. What this does is
   copies your secure.htaccess Master file to your Root website folder and renames
   it to .htaccess.
 * Also the Read Me help buttons throughout BPS have extensive help info.
 *  Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/)
 * (@aitpro)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-before-installing/#post-3146814)
 * [@borderline11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borderline11/) – I assume
   this fully answered your questions so I am resolving this thread. Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-before-installing/#post-3146814)
 * Status: resolved