htaccess file modified, site broken, and unable to login

The .htaccess file was recently changed through MODx. Now the site redirects, and I am unable to login to the manager and revert the file. The site is completely down. How do I access the manager to revert the file? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Do you have FTP access or any other access to the hosting environment? If not, I would probably contact the webhost for help.

freejung. I've just contacted the webhost and awaiting reply. Do you have any suggestions on solutions? On what I should ask the hosts to do?

If you have cPanel access, you should be able to edit the .htaccess file in File Manager.

BTW, what does this mean, exactly: "The .htaccess file was recently changed through MODx." ?

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PLEASE, PLEASE specify the version of MODX you are using . . . PLEASE!
MODx info for everyone: http://bobsguides.com/MODx.html

Ay, mates thanks for taking the time. The host support came through in a pinch. It's all resolved.

BobRay, I think the MODx file manager was used to edit the .htaccess file.

That was my first guess, but I thought it might be possible that a new version of MODX modified it during the install

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PLEASE, PLEASE specify the version of MODX you are using . . . PLEASE!
MODx info for everyone: http://bobsguides.com/MODx.html

Sorry I didn't respond to your followup - I'm glad everything worked out. Just for reference, probably the easiest thing to do in this situation would be to simply ask the webhost to rename .htaccess, which should restore your access to the manager. You could then use the manager to make corrections to the renamed file, and then name it back to .htaccess. If you get the corrections wrong you may lock yourself out again, but then you could just repeat the process.

It's almost impossible to properly manage any website without access to the file system (an FTP client) and access to the database. Most hosting control panels also have a file manager of some kind, as well as providing access to the database, usually phpMyAdmin for accessing MySQL databases.

On my host, I can edit .htaccess inside MODX, but it shows as locked in the MODX file tree and I get an error message when I try to save it -- though it is, in fact, saved.

This is a bad practice, though, (as you found out) because one tiny error in .htaccess and you're locked out of the Manager. It's much better to do it outside of MODX, back up .htaccess before each change, and check to see if the home page loads in another browser after each change is saved.

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PLEASE, PLEASE specify the version of MODX you are using . . . PLEASE!
MODx info for everyone: http://bobsguides.com/MODx.html