{"id":18851039,"date":"2026-03-13T17:29:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wp-engine-error\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:29:50","slug":"wp-engine-error","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/wp-engine-error\/","title":{"rendered":"WP Engine &#8220;Error!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Error!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following file was not found. Please make sure the file exists and has write permissions:\u00a0<code>\/var\/www\/htdocs\/.htaccess<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The following file was not found. Please make sure the file exists and has write permissions:&nbsp;<code>\/var\/www\/htdocs\/.user.ini<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re hosting with WPEngine who advised the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The .htaccess file is no longer supported on the platform, and the other file would be a non-standard wordpress file, so you&#8217;d need to reach out to the plugin developers regarding those errors, to see if they have any workarounds for using the plugins on WP Engine.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can you help please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18851039","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18851039","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\/18851039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18851039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}