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I’ve just discovered that when upgrading from the free version to iThemes Pro, everything gets deleted from the .htaccess file, even though the iThemes settings all claim to be set and activated. Perhaps it also happens under other circumstances but this is how I noticed it. I deleted the free version, uploaded the Pro version, activated it, turned on all my settings and made sure the options I wanted were set correctly, and thought it had worked. Now by chance I had to look at my .htaccess file for something else and found that iThemes hadn’t put anything in it.
In order to get it to add all the stuff to the .htaccess I had to check, save, uncheck, save, check, save the “Remove File Writing Permissions” option a few times in the System Tweaks section. I had to go around and do this on more than half of my sites, whose .htaccess files were blank. Most of them didn’t even have the “Remove File Writing Permissions” box checked in the first place, which I thought might be the issue (and even then, all of them do have the first checkbox in the Global settings section checked).
If iThemes fails to add the necessary code to the .htaccess file, it would be nice to get some sort of warning notification! I’d been thinking this whole time that since the settings looked correct and active that it must be protecting my site, but evidently not.
- This topic was modified 20 minutes ago by Head Goldfish. Reason: Grammar