htaccess problem at update

  • Resolved madmax4ever

    (@madmax4ever)


    4 years, 5 months ago

    Yesterday, I updated few plugins. Among them, Wordfence (from 7.4.11 to 7.4.12) and a cache plugin, WP-Rocket (from 3.7.3 to 3.7.4).
    What I discovered today (on my own) is that my .htaccess had radically changed. From 4 parts (wp-rocket / custom security / wordpress / WAF), it turned to only 2 (wp-rocket / wordpress).
    I can’t be sure wether WP-Rocket or Wordfence is the culprit or if this is a “really no luck at all context” because the two plugins got updated together, but this is definitively a problem as it lowered my site security for almost 24h!

    Luckily, I backup regularly (and the htaccess is not a file that changes so often), so it’s OK for me and I’ll just double-check my .htaccess after future Wordfence and WP-Rocket updates. But I wanted you (as well as WP-Rocket team) to know.

    Maybe you could check that?

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  • Plugin Support WFAdam

    (@wfadam)

    Hello @madmax4ever and thanks for reaching out to us!

    Thank you for the information but Wordfence only updates the htaccess file during the firewall optimization and will never remove anything from it. I am not sure if a cache plugin such as WP-Rocket could do that either.

    By chance have you updated your WP version as well? I have seen a few instances where the htaccess was sort of restored to a previous version during a WP update.

    Let me know what you find!

    Thanks!

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