WP updates will overwrite the htaccess?

[deeper]

Hi,
can anybody tell, what WP Updates (small ones like 3.9.1 --> 3.9.2 or bigger ones like 3.9 --> 3.10, 3.9 --> 4.0) will overwrite my custom htaccess code?

[lorax]

If your code is outside the # BEGIN WordPress and # END WordPress tags in the .htaccess file then it will not be overwritten.

To my knowledge, it hasn't been updated in quite a while. If you change the default code between the WordPress tags, then yes, it will be updated the next time WordPress checks the htaccess file (I'm not sure when this happens) and definitely when you update permalinks or have a plugin that writes to the htaccess file.

[phranque]

according to WP...

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_.22Pretty.22_permalinks

WordPress will play nice with an existing .htaccess and will not delete any existing RewriteRules or other directives. If you have other mod_rewrite rules, put yours before WordPress's.

i assume "other mod_rewrite rules" are those outside the standard WP comments envelope:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
...
# END WordPress

[deeper]

Thanks! Good to know regarding the question if prefering a merged htaccess-code or splitting it into "parts".
Probably I will prefer parts and one of the parts will be the "BEGIN WP ... END WP".

Or are there any further reasons against this? Performance?

[lorax]

i assume "other mod_rewrite rules" are those outside the standard WP comments envelope:

Yes.