{"id":13264166,"date":"2020-08-16T14:49:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T14:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-do-security-optimization\/"},"modified":"2020-08-16T14:49:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T14:49:15","slug":"cannot-do-security-optimization","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/cannot-do-security-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannot do security optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to optimize security I get the following message &#8211; &#8220;We were unable to make changes to the .htaccess file. Its possible WordPress cannot write to the .htaccess file because of file permissions, which may have been set by another security plugin, or you may have set them manually. Please verify the permissions allow the webserver to write to the file, and retry the installation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Where should I look for access to the file?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-13264166","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/13264166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/13264166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13264166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}