Is PHP allowed to modify the .htaccess file in the current folder?

Question

I have a PHP web application hosted on a shared hosting . My goal is to modify the .htaccess file from the PHP code when starting the PHP page. I need this .htaccess to insert a couple of mod_rewrite lines into it.

The problem is that on Windows + Apache I can change the .htaccess file dynamically but the same code on Linux reports a problem when I try to access this file in any (copy or fopen):

"failed to open stream: Permission denied"

I gave the .htaccess file 777 permissions - there is still no result. What is stopping me from doing this? How can I develop a workaround?

PS My initial goal was to add a new RewriteRule to .htaccess, which displays the added category_id category with a new category name.

If this were not shared hosting, I would use something like RewriteMap (in the main Apache config) and could access the map file.

This is the first real limitation that I could not handle with PHP + Apache, but I hope this is also possible.

Answer 1

I want to offer something else that works too. Instead of writing a rule for each "special" URL, why not use it for everyone?

It was a lot easier for me to use what Wordpress uses: each URL is redirected to an index.

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.htaccess :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

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http://yoursite.com/category/programming

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^/category/.*$ category.php [QSA]

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FYI, one of the reasons that rewriting .htaccess is a bad idea is that any requests that come in while .htaccess are rewriting, no redirects will be applied.