htaccess error when adding redirect

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grgarside

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Since today, when I try to add a redirect between two parts of my website using the redirects panel in cPanel, I get this error:

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Unable to write to .htaccess: /home/ggarside/public_html/.htaccess

I have created many redirects before and they all work perfectly. Please could someone tell me what the problem is and how I can fix it. Thanks.
 

leafypiggy

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Check the permissions on the file. Make sure that "system" can read/write the file.
 

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In cPanel, FileManager, select .htaccess and then click on "Change Permissions" (key icon top middle of page)
They should be 0644
 

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(BUMP) Please can someone help! I've been waiting ages and literally no-one else has posted anything like this (that I could find). I really need my .htaccess working!

By the way, I can't change the file manually from cPanel file manager or by FTP. I'm completely locked out of the file.
 

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Can't edit, can't change permissions, can't delete and reupload, can't rename.
 

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Repaired, somehow root took over the .htaccess; my guess is it was from the high system resource from earlier and a glitch during unsuspension - it looks like the file itself was right, but it glitched and didn't give you permissions over it again.
 

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Thanks very much. I can't thank you enough. Now going to press that reputation button...

(PS: I've only just has the over-resource warning - this thread was started in November. How can the two be related?)
 
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