.htaccess strange behavior on rename

Dear all,

i am a new user of MODx, i have installed on mac with mamp a fresh installation of modx 2.4.3-pl standard and i need to edit .ht.access file in core directory for securing directory.

as many users write i edit htaccess like this



all works but after 1 or two pages browsing in manager, the cms automatically rename .htaccess to .htaccess.access

it's strange!

the same behavior with ROOT .htaccess, if I rename it and after 1 click in manager the modx engine automatically rename to .htaccess.access

i don't understand.

Any ideas?

Thank in advance
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MODX doesn't even know the .htaccess file exists, so it's not MODX unless you've installed an extra that has something to do with the .htaccess file.

I suspect it's something your host has installed that runs on every request, so it does the renaming when you click because that generates a new page request.

It's possible that the host has just reconfigured things so that Apache uses htaccess.access instead of .htaccess and the renaming is just a convenience for you.

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 17, 2016, 07:30 PM

MODX doesn't even know the .htaccess file exists, so it's not MODX unless you've installed an extra that has something to do with the .htaccess file.

I suspect it's something your host has installed that runs on every request, so it does the renaming when you click because that generates a new page request.

It's possible that the host has just reconfigured things so that Apache uses htaccess.access instead of .htaccess and the renaming is just a convenience for you.

Dear Bob i have already opened ticket on my hosting provider, keep you update

Hi Bob,

Solved! The problem is my IDE , netbeans, i don't know why, but seems that it rename htaccess files ...bha ... modx isn't the problem

Thx for reply

Bye

That's truly odd.

I switched from Netbeans to PhpStorm a long time ago, mainly because PhpStorm has infinitely better error checking (at least it did when I switched). It saves me *many* hours of frustration.