Title: .htaccess blocking admin features for admin users
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# .htaccess blocking admin features for admin users

 *  [Adriano Marques](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrianomarques/)
 * (@adrianomarques)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-blocking-admin-features-for-admin-users/)
 * Hey mates. I’ve been looking for a code to hide the file extensions from URLs
   and I came across this one:
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       ## Go Daddy servers need the Options -MultiViews code below
       Options -MultiViews
   
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
   
       # To externally redirect /dir/foo.php to /dir/foo
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
       RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}\s([^.]+)\.php [NC]
       RewriteRule ^ %1 [R,L,NE]
   
       ## To internally redirect /dir/foo to /dir/foo.php
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f [NC]
       RewriteRule ^ %{REQUEST_URI}.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 * This .htaccess code was working beautifully until I found out that for some reason
   this was blocking admin features in my admin account, meaning I couldn’t activate/
   deactivate plugins, add/edit/delete users and so on. So I was forced to remove
   the .htaccess file and now I have the .php extensions back in my URLs. Eg. I 
   currently have myexample.com/contact.php whereas I’d rather have myexample.com/
   contact.
 * Is there a way of hiding the extensions from my URLs without losing my WP admin
   capabilities? Cheers.

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 *  [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/)
 * (@dartiss)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-blocking-admin-features-for-admin-users/#post-7438924)
 * Your problem will be because you’re not using the standard .htaccess file. What
   I would recommend is going back to your initial issue – the blocking of admin
   functions – and resolve that. It must be a screwed .htaccess to prevent some 
   features of admin and not others.
 * Can you post up what your original .htaccess looked like?
 *  Thread Starter [Adriano Marques](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adrianomarques/)
 * (@adrianomarques)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-blocking-admin-features-for-admin-users/#post-7438934)
 * Hi dartiss. Thanks for the response.
 * There wasn’t any .htaccess before the one I uploaded into my server actually.
   This is the very first one. I just wanted to hide the extensions in the URLs…
   🙁
 *  [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/)
 * (@dartiss)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-blocking-admin-features-for-admin-users/#post-7438943)
 * You need to go into Settings -> Permalinks and set up a permalink structure. 
   That should create the required .htaccess.

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [David Artiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dartiss/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-blocking-admin-features-for-admin-users/#post-7438943)
 * Status: not resolved

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