Persistent error message when .htaccess is not writable

  • Adaptive Images keeps displaying a big annoying error message at the top of every admin page saying it couldn’t update the .htaccess file. It can’t update it because we have .htaccess set to read-only permissions (440) on purpose. We have manually applied the changes required to make Adaptive Images work, so there is no need for Adaptive Images to access the file once, let alone every single page load. Further, if we close (x) the notification, it returns every time we refresh the page in the admin. Can you make this dialog a little less prominent, or smarter to detect if the changes were made? We don’t want to reduce our security by making .htaccess writable by WordPress.

    
Adaptive Images Error — The .htaccess file is not updated

The Adaptive Images settings are saved, but the .htaccess file was not able to be updated yet.

Please try to save the plugin settings once again in Adaptive Images Settings. If the problem persists, then you should contact your system administrator and inform them about the issue.

The .htaccess file permissions are: /path/to/site.com/.htaccess => -r--r-----.
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  • Plugin Author Takis Bouyouris

    (@nevma)

    Hello, my friend,

    Thank you for your message, you are right, this is a case that was missed in the original plugin development and the message can indeed get annoying, always appearing in one’s /wp-admin. We are trying to squeeze an update for this in our development process in one of the next versions.

    Hope you can bear with it a little bit longer!

    Let me know if I can help any further.

    Cheers,
    Takis

    I also get this ….. no matter how i set the permissions only 777 clears the error message….. but i can’t leave it at 777 as soon as i put other permissions it comes back driving me mad

    Plugin Author Takis Bouyouris

    (@nevma)

    Hello, my friend,

    It seems that PHP falsely reports your htaccess file as non writeable for some reason. We have not figured this out yet. On the one hand, this issue could only be reported in the Adaptive Images settings area. On the other hand, in cases where the issue is real, it is an issue that the website owner definitely needs to fix!

    We are trying to find a solution for this!

    Cheers,
    Takis

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