Failed to update your /.htaccess file automatically.

[BreursICT]

When i try to safe the settings i get the following error "Failed to update your /.htaccess file automatically. Most likely a permissions error. Please make sure it has permissions 644 or higher (perhaps 666). Once you've done this, please try saving the ZenCache options again."

I allready checked my htaccess but nothing strange. Also checked the permissions on the htaccess file but that fine aswell.

Do you have any suggestion ?

[raamdev]

@BreursICT Could you show us a copy of your .htaccess file? I'd like to test it against my local installation of ZenCache to see if anything strange is going on.

[raamdev]

After some research, I discovered a few issues with the htaccess utilities in ZenCache Pro v151220:

• Every time the plugin options are saved when ZenCache is enabled, ZenCache calls addWpHtaccess(), regardless of whether or not it actually needs to (i.e., whether or not any options are enabled that require adding something to the htaccess file).
• ZenCache does not intelligently keep track of which options are currently enabled that require htaccess rules, and as a result more code than necessary is being run each time the site owner saves the plugin options and addWpHtaccess() is called.

As a result of all this unnecessary work, I believe we're increasing the chances that the site owner might see an error message when the error message isn't even applicable (i.e., ZenCache has no reason to add/remove anything from the htaccess file).

I've submitted a PR (wpsharks/comet-cache-pro#204) that resolves these issues.

[raamdev]

Also reported here (internal ticket): https://websharks.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/10212

[BreursICT]

Hi Raam,

Thank you for your support!

So If I understand correct the error messages are not applicable, and for now I can just ignore them.

With kind regards,

Wesley de Graaf

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Onderwerp: Re: [zencache] Failed to update your /.htaccess file automatically. (#641)

Also reported here (internal ticket): https://websharks.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/10212

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[raamdev]

@BreursICT That is correct. If you don't have Static CDN Filters enabled (ZenCache → Plugin Options → Static CDN Filters), then any messages about being unable to write to the .htaccess file can be ignored.

[raamdev]

Next Pro Release Changelog:

• Bug Fix: Fixed an issue that was unexpectedly producing "Failed to update your /.htaccess file" error messages. The .htaccess routines are now more intelligent and take into consideration which plugin options are enabled and which options require updating the .htaccess file. This also improves performance by avoiding unnecessary read/writes to the .htaccess file. Props @patdumond. See Issue #641.

[raamdev]

ZenCache Pro v160103 has been released and includes changes from this GitHub Issue. See the v160103 announcement for further details.

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