.htaccess not updating

azism · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:33 am

About a month ago I had to relocate my site to another host as my then host went out of business. Everything seemed to be going okay, until today I noticed that even after adding some spammers to the IP Banned list, the .htaccess file didn't update. Any suggestions on what I should look for here? Question

srhh · Involved Joined: Dec 27, 2005 Posts: 296

Well, off the top of my head, do you have permissions set so sentinel can write to htaccess? An does your new host allow for htacess?

Other than that, I notice that happens sometimes too and I don't know why. But the IP's get stored in the database, so I don't know if it's a major concern or not. Anyone?

gregexp · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 4:19 pm

Have you reset the path to the .htaccess file in sentinel admin panel?

azism · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:47 pm

After digging around all afternoon, I did change the access to 777 (hope that is correct) and then I found out the new host does the path different, and hopefully I have that correct. After all that, I found out that I had a big problem with the SQL database. It did not load some of the tables correctly and one not at all when I moved my site. So I played games with that and think I have the SQL okay at this point. Only time will tell.

Thanks for all the pointers and hints. Very Happy