Somehow I broke my site.. yesterday it was working fine and these were the only changes I made:
\-Installed Yoast
\-Created a few post categories/deleted a bunch of random ones that were unused and came over on an old theme
\-Created 2 posts in Gutenberg and a blanket post template (Oxygen), then used yoast on those posts
This morning I tried to log in and got a 403 error both on the front end and when I tried to access the login page. I raised a ticket with my host and they said this: ” It seems that some changes were amde yesterday in .htaccess file which caused this issue. We have renamed this file to .htaccess.bak and now website is working.”
The only thing I can think of that triggered this was deleting the categories, as I ignored the Yoast notification that told me to redirect pages from those categories.. But there were no posts or content connected to them. What if anything should I do now? Do I need to change the htaccess name again or is it fine with the new name?
For context, I’m building a new version of my company’s site but I’m doing it on a spare domain. First timer and I’m using Oxygen for pages but Gutenberg for the post content.
Any help would be much appreciated!
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