id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
21372,flush_rewrite_rules() completely overwrites .htaccess,rulatir,,"A call to flush_rewrite_rules(true) does a very unexpected and potentially destructive thing: it completely overwrites .htaccess.

While this probably isn't stated outright anywhere in the docs, the presence of the BEGIN/END delimiters yields a strong impression that it is safe to add directives to .htaccess outside the delimited Wordpress section.

If overwriting the whole .htaccess is by design and not a bug, then the format of generated .htaccess should be changed. Instead of the BEGIN/END comments misleading the developer into thinking that directives outside of that section will be preserved, it should contain an EXPLICIT STERN WARNING that the file is auto-generated and all changes made to it will be lost.
",defect (bug),closed,normal,,Rewrite Rules,,major,duplicate,reporter-feedback,