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WP, Can't modify .htaccess file for Falcon Engine?

by whatjut
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Hello helllllllllo,

Please help? I just installed Wordfence on my WP site and I'm trying to speed up my performance in Falcon.. but when I check the "Speed up 30-50x faster" box and try to continue I get the following error message:

We can't modify your .htaccess file for you because: We found your .htaccess file but could not open it for writing: fopen(/homepages/8/lettersandnumbers/htdocs/appnumbershere//.htaccess): failed to open stream: Permission denied

Does anyone have an idea on what I could do? Would WP Supercache do the same thing as Falcon? I'm sorry if I didn't include all of the information you need here. Any help would be appreciated.

PS: I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I'm not using FTP. I'm a rookie and am still learning the ropes.
#engine #falcon #file #htaccess #modify
  • Profile picture of the author David V
    First, take a quick look at this so you understand what permissions are.

    Basically your htaccess is not writable by the plugin.
    You must change the permissions (also called chmod) to allow Falcon to write to it.
    Likely "755", but I wouldn't leave like that.

    You really will need to learn FTP at a minimum.
    It's quite easy to grasp and there are tons of tutorials to get yourself FTP'd into your server where you'll find the htaccess (make sure to enable viewing hidden files since htaccess is hidden)

    There are plugins to do this kind of thing within the WP admin area but they are a security risk and should not be used.
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