canot read .htaccess

This is the error
/home5/bostonde/public_html/.htaccess could not be copied. IP and referer banning have been disabled. To enable those features, be sure /home5/bostonde/public_html/.htaccess exists, then reactivate the Visitor Maps Extended Referer Field plugin.

And, yes path is correct so are permission set to 755 at .htaccess. The error occurs only with your latest version of 1.2.1

I wasn’t able to reproduce this error, but that doesn’t imply one doesn’t exist. However, I made a couple of changes in version 1.2.2, which will hopefully resolve this issue.

Thanks for reporting!

In fact, I updated to version 1.2.2 and issue still exist on one server. On the other 1.2.2 works. What is the best way to clean up the plugin install?

For now, you would have to temporarily place a snippet of code in your theme header.

<?php
    delete_option("vmerf_wp_version");
    delete_option("vmerf_banned_ips");
    delete_option("vmerf_banned_referers");
    delete_option("vmerf_htbackup");
    delete_option("vmerf_auto_update");
    delete_option("vmerf_auto_update_time");
?>

Place that in your header.php file, run it once in a browser, and then delete the snippet. That will delete any saved data except the htaccess file.

I am adding an option to the plugin to delete all of the saved data, including the htaccess data upon deactivation. This feature will be added to the next version.

Thanks for help. I did a clean uninstall, then reinstall. Now it works. So apparently something went wrong during past upgrade.

Thanks Jason for the solution. I’ve been having this problem for months.
sky

I do have the same problem on a VPS, 3 wordpress installations, same error, I can do what I want. .htaccess is available and has 755

Any idea? I use the latest version.

@leosch,

Sounds like a server configuration issue, perhaps apache.

If you have a test site on your server you can grant me temporary access to, I would be happy to troubleshoot it from there.

Login credentials can be sent from https://websitedev.biz/contact/.

Our site, rockchurchradio.com is experiencing the same error. I host with Wpengine.

Plugin = Visitor Maps Extended Referer field (v 1.2.3)

Visitor Maps Extended Notice

/nas/wp/www/cluster-1673/mwhelan4/.htaccess could not be copied. IP and referer banning have been disabled. To enable those features, be sure /nas/wp/www/cluster-1673/mwhelan4/.htaccess exists, then reactivate the Visitor Maps Extended Referer Field plugin.

Here’s the reply from Wpengine after I sent them the error:

Jason Stallings, Jun 06 02:28 pm (CDT):
Hey Marc,

I can confirm the .htaccess file is there, I’m not quite sure why the file can’t be copied though. Unfortunately we can’t change permissions, and usually that isn’t needed.

I’d contact the plugin developer, looks like the issue is found around line 347:

if(!@copy(ABSPATH . “.htaccess”, $htbackup)){
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
Let me know how this works.

Jason Stallings
Twitter: @octalmage

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Any help would be much appreciated,

Thanks!
Marc

Remove the @ symbol from the copy function to get the specific PHP error.

if(!copy(ABSPATH . “.htaccess”, $htbackup)){
return false;
} else {
return true;
}

Copy the error to here, if you don’t mind.