[wp-testers] Re: .htaccess automatically overwritten?

[Ryan Boren]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:05 AM, deliciousdays
<oliver.seidel at deliciousdays.com> wrote:
>
>  Just happened again at 11:32pm last night. I know for a fact I didn't
>  touch any permalink etc settings....
>  Is there anything in the code that would reset somehow automatically the
>  root .htaccess?

There are a few events that can cause the rules to be flushed to
.htaccess.  Nothing in between the BEGIN and END tags is safe.  You
can remove write permissions from the file to protect it from
overwrites.