jcutroni

I am thinking that what’s causing the .htaccess file is combination of two things:

1. Site is being compromised. I use Securi to monitor my sites and they are reporting security warnings on the server side:

“File possibly compromised: ./starting.php (php.spam-seo.wordpress-infector.001). Manual review recommended.”

2. The WordPress theme – according to the theme’s creator, the theme is from 2011 and its not getting enough sales for him to invest a whole week or more updating it, and he will likely not be doing such an update.

I added the recommended code to the top of my .htaccess file, as instructed in that webpage you recommended. After awhile, I started getting the 404 errors again.

My conclusion – something is re-writing my .htaccess file. When I start seeing these 404 errors return, the code within that file changes to this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (google|yahoo|msn|aol|bing) [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (google|yahoo|msn|aol|bing)
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ /starting.php?p=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Hi, and thanks…yeah I’ve seen that page and looked at my .htaccess file in Dreamweaver.

I’m a bit confused – it says to login to your server using FTP, and modify the .htaccess file.

Modify it with what???

The code that your linked post suggests is already in the .htaccess file, so I’m not sure why they list that as an option. I’ve even tried completely deleting the .htaccess file and re-saving the permalinks, as someone suggested on a forum post, but I’m STILL having this 404 problem.

I’ve also contacted the host (GoDaddy) and their suggestions were basic, such as re-saving the Permalinks structure. I’ve been going around in circles and pretty much to a point where I’ve run out of options.

Does ANYONE know of any other way to fix this besides the ways I’ve listed?

Thanks