.htaccess randomly truncated to 0 bytes
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The .htaccess file randomly gets truncated to zero byte on my website, which breaks the nice urls. It happened 3 times in a few weeks, on several websites hosted on my server – all of them had WordFence installed. Sometimes, several websites had their .htaccess file truncated within a few minutes.
After some investigation, it’s likely caused by WordFence rewriting the htaccess file every 5 minutes. I’m not sure what causes the rewrite to fail, I suspect a conflict with mod_security. The server is a fairly standard cPanel install.
An easy work-around is to disable WordFence on all my websites, but I don’t want to loose the functionalities. I did a fair amount of googling and haven’t seen any similar issue.
Has this issue been reported before? Any idea what is the cause, and how I can work around it?
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