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#42963 Where can I find the htaccessmaker?

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Environment Information

WordPress version
7.0
PHP version
8.4.x
Admin Tools version
2.0.3 pro

Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 22 May 2026 16:46 CDT

indiwan

Hi!

I'm looking for the htaccess-maker in the backend, but cant' find anything like it.

Any information very appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

 

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Click on Admin Tools.

One of the icons is labelled .htaccess Maker. That's what you are looking for.

Please double check you have installed Admin Tools Professional, not Admin Tools Core.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

indiwan

I'm sorry, I cant' find the icon, please see screenshot. and yes it's the pro version.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

The screenshot you provided is from the Core version. The Professional version has the following icons under Security (in this order): Emergency Off-Line, Master Password, Password-protect WP Administration, .htaccess Maker, Malware Detection, Web Application Firewall.

Please make sure that you have actually installed the Professional version. Purchasing a subscription is not enough. Providing the Download ID is not enough. You actually need to log into our site, download the Professional (NOT the Core!) package, and install it on your site. There's a video tutorial showing that: https://www.akeeba.com/videos/1224-admin-tools-wordpress/1714-atwp-installation.html 

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

indiwan

I'm very sorry, but I definitely use the pro-version. I just reinstalled the plugin. The package is named "admintoolswp-2.0.3-pro.zip", also WordPress tells me in the PlugIn-Section that it is the Pro-version. I putted the download-id (hopefully) in the correct field: "Plugin Parameters"-"Update"-"Download ID". I cleared all cache.  But still the same. Maybe I'm still doing something wrong or miss something.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

No, you have the Core version, I can see it plain as day in your screenshot. That's the entire problem. If you had the Pro version you wouldn't be here having this convo with me.

Do try to reinstall the Pro version again. Remember to tell WordPress to replace the existing version when asked.

In case you installed both the Core and Pro version in parallel (it's possible in WP even though it's completely stupid): uninstall Admin Tools. Keep doing that until it's uninstalled. Remove all AT folders from wp-content/plugins. Then reinstall the Pro version.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

indiwan

It seem’s to me I’m offending you. If so, I’m sorry, it’s not what I want to do.

I’m using Akeeba Tools for more than 10 years and I’m very happy with it. I’m into IT for more than 40 years. So I truly understand what you are telling me. I never downloaded the CORE (would have been „completely stupid“, I agree.

I downloaded the pro version on Monday, May 18th at 7:23 pm. Finder tells me: 

https://www.akeeba.com/download.html

https://www.akeeba.com/download/atwp/2-0-3/admintoolswp-2-0-3-pro-zip.raw. 

Minutes before that, I purchased the license, your confirmation email reached me at 7:19 pm - otherwise I couldn’t have downloaded the pro version. I ran through to regular installation process, as I did hundreds of times within the last more than 10 years. I reinstalled it now the second time. No success.

If you still recommend to completely deinstall / reinstall it as you described, I will do so, even if I loose all the settings. Before doing so, could you please doublecheck that my download ID is setup correctly within your system? That would be great.

Thanks in advance for your patience and your kind next recommendation.

indiwan

Just for your information: I'm running on WordPress 7.0. I've just changed to PHP 8.1.34 (previous 8.4.21). Reinstalled again. Same issue.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Not offended at all, I actually really do understand your problem and want to help you. I am just trying to explain how I know you're running the Core version. I am not guessing, I am not a mind reader, I am not a magician; I look at your screenshot and I see which features are missing – the ones I have explicitly left out of the Core version. That's what I was trying to explain.

WordPress, unlike Joomla, allows you to install both the Core and Professional edition in parallel. It makes no sense. It bases that decision on folder names, even though every other identifier in the plugin and the code makes it appear as the same plugin. I think that on that regard WordPress is being completely stupid.

Yes, uninstalling Admin Tools would lose you existing settings… of which there are not many since you still have the Core version installed with very minimal features. You are not really losing much, about 3 minutes of work at worst. It's a far simpler and faster method than trying to identify which edition of Admin Tools ended up in which directory, editing serialized PHP objects in the database (another stupid decision made by WordPres...), and hoping you didn't mess anything up which would necessitate reinstalling anyway. Instead of wasting 20-30 hours of your time for something that has about 0.1% chance of success I am asking you to spend 3 minutes of your time instead. If you want the hard way I can do that, but please bear in mind I warned you it's going to take way too long, it will be too hard, and it is most likely bound to fail anyway.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

indiwan

Ok, thanks. I deactivated Admin Tools, deleted it from plugins, all the files were deleted, re-installed it, set the Download ID. Three times in a row. Same problem. Sorry. Something else must be wrong.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

There is the file wp-content/plugins/admintoolswp/version.php which has this line in Core:

define('ADMINTOOLSWP_PRO', '0');

and this line in Pro:

define('ADMINTOOLSWP_PRO', '1');

Which line do you see in the file?

If it's the former (0): you are installing the wrong ZIP file on the right site, or the right ZIP file on the wrong site.

It it's the latter (1): your host has misconfigured OPcache, meaning that all updates you've been installing for WordPress, its plugins, and its themes do not take effect. Beyond being a problem for using Admin Tools, it's a massive security issue as your site is effectively running old code with known security issues even though you updated the actual PHP files to newer versions. In this case you have to contact your host post-haste to fix the OPcache configuration.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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