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It’s two weeks later …. we’ve still not managed to resolve our .htaccess problems. The workaround is holding it together but has disabled some fairly key features (as above)

Our host is trying to help as as well.

Does anyone have any experience of this or advice to share?

Many thanks.

Fair enough. We looked into paying, but our country has hyperinflation at 1800% (not joking). Even token international costs tend to work out at several times the monthly minimum wage here.

Not that we don’t think it’s deserved – we just can’t dream of paying it. Which is why we use open source stuff. It’s the only way we can keep going.

Thanks for the advice. We’ve managed to get help from our host – am about to go update and close one of the issues raised right now.

Thanks for the replies. I uploaded an older version of the .htaccess file to the server, overwriting the one that might be causing the issue and it seemed to work – for a second.

All the permalinks started working as they should.

But I then went into the admin side of WordPress and clicked on the Permalink tab under options. I did nothing more then that (didn’t try to update links).

When I went back to the site itself, the problem had returned.

WP seems to have set the .htaccess file back to a default.

We then put up the working version again and set to chmod 444 so no-one can write over the file. OK, this is a fix, but a bit of a work-around. Any other suggestions?