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I used webfonts in my Wordpress site. I need a rewriterule in my htacces. I put this in my htacces file:

RewriteRule ^fonts/(.*) /mikevierwind/wp-content/themes/roots/fonts/$1 [QSA,L]

But when i save this htacces file. Wordpress is rewriting the htacces file and my fonts rewriterule is gone. How can i fix that?

Thank for helping!

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Where in your .htaccess file are you adding that? – hampusn Sep 19 '12 at 9:29

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Please change the permissions of .htaccess to read-only by accessing it via SFTP, SSH, cPanel 'File Manager' or whatever the tool you have.

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If you do that, WordPress will have problems with the Rewrite API and every plugin using it. WordPress needs to be able to write to the .htaccess file. – hampusn Sep 19 '12 at 9:23
@hampusn I have yet to see a case where you need a rewritten .htaccess. – toscho♦ Sep 19 '12 at 9:41
@toscho Even so, is that really a reason to discard it? Just because you doesn't use a function at this point in time, there's no telling what will happen in a week, a month or a year. Imagine the hassle not using __(), _e(), _ex() etc. when you later realize you need another language for the site. Mike should at least be aware of the possible problems. – hampusn Sep 19 '12 at 10:03
You can add new permalinks for endpoints, custom post types, rewrite tags … without touching the .htaccess. The hard rewrite is needed only if you don’t use the rewrite API. – toscho♦ Sep 19 '12 at 10:06
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Add the rule outside of the WordPress block.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  # ...
  RewriteRule ^fonts/(.*) /mikevierwind/wp-content/themes/roots/fonts/$1 [QSA,L]
  # ...
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>


# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

You should also consider using the Rewrite API to do this. And read this text about debugging the .htaccess file.

Edit: This topic on stackoverflow.com could also be of use.

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