htaccess error when adding redirect

[grgarside]

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:

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]

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

 

[grgarside]

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

How would I do that?

 

[descalzo]

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

 

[grgarside]

They should be 0644

They are.

 

[grgarside]

(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.

 

[descalzo]

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.

What do you mean by "locked out"?

 

[grgarside]

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

 

[Livewire]

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.

 

[grgarside]

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?)