Title: htaccess corruption
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# htaccess corruption

 *  [danoneil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danoneil/)
 * (@danoneil)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-corruption/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve been having a daily htaccess corruption and haven’t been able until now 
   to find the cause… it seems that without wp super cache running, the problem 
   never happens (I’ve tested for a couple of weeks), however with it switched on,
   I get this corruption about every 12 hours or so. Don’t know if it’s a plugin
   conflict, or whether it’s some of the advanced settings…
 * I’ve worked around it by setting the permissions to 444, but just thought you
   might want to know!
 * Oh yes, and I’ve changed hosts in the same period and the same thing happens 
   on both hosts.
 * Thanks, Dan

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 *  Plugin Author [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-corruption/#post-2172234)
 * What does the corruption look like? Supercache shouldn’t write to your .htaccess
   file without user intervention so there’s something very odd here.
 *  Thread Starter [danoneil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danoneil/)
 * (@danoneil)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-corruption/#post-2172250)
 * It depends on the host… for my old host, the file would just blank out – even
   though there was a size reported. For my new host, it seems to break the file–
   getting 500 internal server errors – but the file is readable, however the supercache
   bit is missing. The size of the file is the same as it was before…
 * At the moment, I’m quite happy just with having the file set to 444 – I have 
   a backup copy ready to overwrite if something happens, but it seems fine this
   way. Not really wanting to test it again – although I have an hourly server monitor
   running, if I’m asleep, the site is down all night!
 * I’m pretty sure it’ll be some kind of conflict with one of the other plugins 
   I run, but it’s hard to know which one it would be and I have a workaround which
   is pretty straight forward!
 * The good news is that yours is the only cache plugin that makes any difference
   to my installation – and it’s really positive.

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 * Last reply from: [danoneil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danoneil/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-corruption/#post-2172250)
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