Title: .htaccess file causing internal server error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# .htaccess file causing internal server error

 *  [bwphoto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwphoto/)
 * (@bwphoto)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-causing-internal-server-error/)
 * I have recently been experiencing an “Internal Server Error” message and it appears
   to be the result of the .htaccess file not having a file extension. If I rename
   the file from .htaccess to .htaccess.bak the problem goes away for awhile then
   returns.
 * Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated. I am thinking it might
   be a plug-in. Is this something a plug-in would do? Or is it something more fundamental.
 * I am using WP 2.6 with the Thesis theme.

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 *  [bernardborealis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bernardborealis/)
 * (@bernardborealis)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-file-causing-internal-server-error/#post-887889)
 * I would guess most likely a plugin, but could be a problem with permalinks, too.

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

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