#21372 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)
flush_rewrite_rules() completely overwrites .htaccess
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | major | Version: | |
| Component: | Rewrite Rules | Keywords: | reporter-feedback |
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Description
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.
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I can't reproduce the complete overwrite. The rules I've added manually outside of the WordPress section are still there after
flush_rewrite_rules( true ).Could you provide the steps to reproduce the issue on a clean install?