cPanel update broke .htaccess

xdan

• July 13, 2017 09:11

Some sort of cpanel update happened last night. The data center does not think it was a version change, just some sort of automatic update?? We are using cPanel & WHM 64.0 (build 31) the update broke all sites. everyone is seeing this: 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. all sites have .htaccess in public_html routing them to public_html/site/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site/index.php [L] this worked from somewhere mid 2007 until roughly 3am july 13 2017 so now what we have to do to get around this error looks like this: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site/$1 [L] any ideas why this change in syntax was required?

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 13, 2017 16:35

  Hello @xdan, Could you open a support ticket using the link in my signature so we can take a closer look at your system to determine what caused this issue? Thank you.

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  xdan

  • July 13, 2017 19:11

  I stepped through the ticket creation system on our server and created a ticket for cpanel. The number is 8714051

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  camilb

  • August 02, 2017 18:21

  In my case this was to the newly introduced option "Optimize .htaccess (AllowOverride) [?]" in Apache Global Configuration. Disabled this option and everything back to normal.

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