[Plugin: BulletProof Security] Google Analytics plugin by Joost conflicts

When I change the root htaccess file from
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\[|\]|\(|\)|<|>|%3c|%3e|%5b|%5d).* [NC,OR]
to:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\[|\]||%3c|%3e|%5b|%5d).* [NC,OR]
and then reactivate BulletProof Mode for the root folder, it reverts back to:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\[|\]|\(|\)|<|>|%3c|%3e|%5b|%5d).* [NC,OR]

I am not using the AutoMagic button, simply selecting the radio-button and reactivating BulletProof mode.

Advice?

Yep this is exactly why AutoMagic and Activating BulletProof Modes is broken into a 2 step process instead of doing everything all in 1 step.

Clicking the Create secure.htaccess AutoMagic button creates a Master .htaccess file named secure.htaccess, which you can then edit using the BPS file editor before activating BulletProof Mode for your Root folder. This allows you to create a modified Master .htaccess file before you actually activate it/make it Live.

When you click the Activate button to Activate BulletProof Mode for your Root folder what happens here is the Master secure.htaccess file is copied to your website root folder and renamed to just .htaccess. So if you want to make edits or modifications to the secure.htaccess file before reactivating it you would do that with the BPS file editor.

There is no rule like this in my root htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\[|\]|\(|\)|<|>|%3c|%3e|%5b|%5d).* [NC,OR]

My google analytics dashboard plugin is still showing a 403 error. I put this line in comment:

#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(\(|\)|<|>|%3c|%3e).* [NC,OR]

And added the skip bypass rule at the end of the wp-admin/admin-ajax.php file

This is a very old Thread that you posted in. That security rule was automatically changed a couple of BPS versions ago to the new security rule that you commented out.

Please see this post: https://www.ait-pro.com/aitpro-blog/2252/bulletproof-security-plugin-support/checking-plugin-compatibility-with-bps-plugin-testing-to-do-list/#GoogleAnalyticsDashboard