Title: Cannot activate the plugin
Last modified: January 3, 2019

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# Cannot activate the plugin

 *  [Asma2103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asma2103/)
 * (@asma2103)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-the-plugin-16/)
 * I want to enable the plugin for my new blog, but I am getting:
    Can’t activate
   the Protection Against DDoS plugin because the .htaccess file is not writable.
   Please make it writable and try again.
 * I am using WP 5.0.2

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)

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 * Last reply from: [Asma2103](https://wordpress.org/support/users/asma2103/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-the-plugin-16/)
 * Status: not resolved