Title: Website Down after automatic update plugin
Last modified: June 20, 2025

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# Website Down after automatic update plugin

 *  Resolved [fabrizioeasyznz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabrizioeasyznz/)
 * (@fabrizioeasyznz)
 * [11 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-after-automatic-update-plugin/)
 * Last night I received an email from WordPress notifying me that the LiteSpeed
   Cache plugin had been updated. Since then, the website has gone down. The hosting
   provider noticed changes in the `.htaccess` file and restored the default `.htaccess`
   to bring the site back online. Now, the site is experiencing constant CPU limit
   spikes, and it’s unclear what caused the issue.

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 *  Plugin Support [litetim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litetim/)
 * (@litetim)
 * [11 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-after-automatic-update-plugin/#post-18520779)
 * [@fabrizioeasyznz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabrizioeasyznz/)
 * What changes have been done to .htaccess? 
   Please create a report, and share 
   the ID with me. Thank you
 *  Thread Starter [fabrizioeasyznz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabrizioeasyznz/)
 * (@fabrizioeasyznz)
 * [11 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-after-automatic-update-plugin/#post-18520786)
 * No changes were made to the htaccess file. The site went down when the plugin
   was updated. At the same time, the htaccess file was modified. We did not make
   any changes.
 * I have copy of htaccess until yesterday. I can share with you. But how? 
   This
   is the number of report I sent to you: **RJVOKEBK**I would like to specify that
   the current htaccess file on the site is the standard one.
 *  Plugin Support [litetim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/litetim/)
 * (@litetim)
 * [11 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-after-automatic-update-plugin/#post-18520988)
 * [@fabrizioeasyznz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabrizioeasyznz/) 
   I don’t
   understand what happened to .htaccess file, but let’s move forwardReport ID is
   enought, do not share other info, only when instructed.If htaccess is standard,
   please go to LSC WP and change a setting that is changing .htaccess This will
   add LSC default data. For example `Mobile cache`. then return to expected value.
   Looking over the site cache is off(might be because of htaccess missing) but 
   make sute Cache is ON ( [https://docs.litespeedtech.com/lscache/lscwp/cache/#enable-cache](https://docs.litespeedtech.com/lscache/lscwp/cache/#enable-cache))
 *  Thread Starter [fabrizioeasyznz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabrizioeasyznz/)
 * (@fabrizioeasyznz)
 * [11 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-after-automatic-update-plugin/#post-18521119)
 * I’ll try to explain myself better. No changes were made to the website yesterday.
   At 8:47 PM, I received an email from WordPress notifying me that LiteSpeed Cache
   had been automatically updated. From that moment, the website went down.
 * I contacted the hosting provider, and they informed me that around that time 
   there were changes to the .htaccess file which caused the site to go down. So
   something happened when the LSC plugin was updated.
 * To temporarily fix the issue, the hosting provider replaced my website’s .htaccess
   file with a standard one.
 * We’d like to understand what happened with the latest update: why did LSC cause
   the website to go down?
 *  Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/)
 * (@qtwrk)
 * [11 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-after-automatic-update-plugin/#post-18521182)
 * logically our plugin will only modify the rules in htaccess within the `#LSCACEH`
   marker , and wordpress’s default rule shouldn’t be touched
 * what was the content of htaccess when it was downed site ? and what was before
   it ?
 * if you downgrade to v7.1 , then upgrade again to v7.2 , does it happen again ?

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 * Last activity: [11 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-after-automatic-update-plugin/#post-18521182)
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