Website goes off line – I fix by renaming the htacess file?
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So my website goes off line and gives a 500 error message on url, I then have to log in to my Godaddy cpanel host, go to file manager and rename the htaccess file to anything, and then it gives me a fresh new htaccess file and all works fine???
Any ideas how to stop this.
Thanks in advance 🙂
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Do mean it’s continually going down with a 500 error, and each time renaming the .htaccess file fixes it?
yeah the site goes down and leaves 500 error, I then rename the htaccess file & like magic a new correct htaccess file appears & all is fixed.
the fix could last for months, weeks even twice in an hour?
Compare the old .htaccess and the new one. What’s different?
WOW new file has 10 lines of code & old file has about 300 lines of code?
Right. So, what is adding those 300 lines of code? Any clues there?
If something is adding code to that file, then it’s possible that it added code which broke your site. Simple as that, really.
heres the thing…. months ago before this happened I did have 300+ lines of code, but not now? example, before this happened (months ago) I added code to the htaccess file so my site was Gzip enabled, at a time when there was 300+ lines of code, now the code is only 10 lines and the gzip code is not even in the new htaccess file, yet my site does test positive for being Gzip enabled? but the code is not there?
months ago before this happened I did have 300+ lines of code, but not now?
Right, something in that 300 lines was causing the problem, we have to find out what was adding them. Any clues from the lines about what could be doing it?
WordPress’s default .htaccess file is only https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Creating_and_editing_.28.htaccess.29
now the code is only 10 lines and the gzip code is not even in the new htaccess file, yet my site does test positive for being Gzip enabled? but the code is not there?
It’s possible that your hosting provider enabled Gzip at the server level, so now you don’t have to switch it on via .htaccess.
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thats the old code, no idea if it was edited before it was changed
Noting
BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
andEND W3TC Browser Cache
in there, I’d say that https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/ is responsible for adding it.This bit:
# BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress
Occurs twice, I suspect that is what was causing the problem.
Is it a idea to disable the plugin and wait a few weeks/month? if nothing happens then bingo.
Exactly, though make sure you also delete and disable the cache first, before deactivating and uninstalling the plugin. 🙂
If you still want to use a cache plugin while W3TC is on “vacation,” try https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/ and supplement it with https://wordpress.org/plugins/cache-buddy/
top stuff, thanks for the help guys 🙂
You’re welcome!
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