Title: .htaccess creates ERROR 500 – INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
Last modified: October 3, 2017

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# .htaccess creates ERROR 500 – INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

 *  [Jim Reekes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reekes/)
 * (@reekes)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-creates-error-500-internal-server-error/)
 * My hosting service, Arvixe, moved my site to a new and ever since I get ERROR
   500 and tracked this down to the .htaccess file created by iThemes Security. 
   I’ve deleted the plugin and reinstalled. I’ve deleted the .htaccess file, and
   re-created it from the Server Config Rules panel. Whenever the iThemes Security.
   htaccess file is present, the server fails.
 * Viewing my server logs, I see many errors like this:
 * [Tue Oct 03 17:40:22 2017] [alert] [client 172.68.142.249] /home1/reekes/public_html/.
   htaccess: The specified IP address is invalid.
 * And this:
 * [Tue Oct 03 17:07:31 2017] [crit] [client 172.68.142.249] (13)Permission denied:/
   home1/reekes/public_html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file,
   ensure it is readable
 * System info:
 * Wordpress Version 4.8.2
 * iThemes Security Version 6.6.1
 * Apache Version: 2.2.34
 * Database server
 * Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
    Server type: Percona Server Server version:
   5.6.32-78.1 – Percona Server (GPL), Release 78.1, Revision 8bb53b6 Protocol version:
   10 User: reekes@localhost Server charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
 * Web server
 * cpsrvd 11.60.0.48
    Database client version: libmysql – 5.1.73 PHP extension: 
   mysqli Documentation
 * phpMyAdmin
 * Version information: 4.3.8, latest stable version: 4.7.4
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   to see the link]_

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 * Last reply from: [Jim Reekes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reekes/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-creates-error-500-internal-server-error/)
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