CPANEL Directory Privacy DoesNOT work With WordPress Admin Directory

[ephremfirew]

Hello WordPress,

Protecting my wordpress admin directory using CPANEL Directory privacy feature doesn't work.

And I tried to replace the default wordpress rule in htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Replaced with this by adding another / after Dot:

RewriteRule ./ /index.php [L]

IT WORKS 100%

But the problem is:

When I update the permalinks, it will rewrite the default rules again.

What is the solution?

[mcmwebsol]

Have you tried adding it before the "# BEGIN WordPress" line?
Or you could set .htaccess to be read-only (e.g. 444 permissions).

[ephremfirew]

Duplicating the rule will damage the website stylesheets. Blocking with 444 may prevent other security plugin tasks but I will try it.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi @ephremfirew, welcome to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the report.

Protecting my wordpress admin directory using CPANEL Directory privacy feature doesn't work.

Could you clarify the exact issue with that feature and provide the steps to reproduce it?

Replaced with this by adding another / after Dot:

RewriteRule ./ /index.php [L]

What's the purpose of that change? As you've noticed, any changes inside # BEGIN WordPress ... # END WordPress can be overwritten. If you need custom rewrite rules, they should be added outside of that block.