Any knownhost VPS users here?

I recently registered on knownhost and I have a VPS account now.

My problem is that my htaccess is not working with the file permission set to 644. When I try to edit something in WP admin it says that my htaccess file does not have the right permissions. It was working find on my old shared hosting.

So it's either a WP problem or a htaccess/apache problem. Any ideas?

I contacted the support and they cannot help me. Anybody else had this problem?

 

it is possible that your running php-cli so you need to chmod 666 in order to edit it. your old shared host was probably running suPHP so 644 would work based on permissions. PM if you need help making server based edits.

 

do you mean setting it to 666 and setting it back to 644 after I've edited the file or is it ok to leave it in 666?

 

I believe they're a fully managed VPS correct? They aren't able to resolve this issue for you?

 

yes its fully managed. They say to switch to suphp but I heard suphp is 20%-30% slower than php. So I really don't know what to do.

 

Yes, chmod 666 then you can chmod back to 644 if you want, but not really important since your running in a vps.

and yes, suPHP is 30% slower

 

so is it safe enough to leave it in 666?

 

yes. since your site is the only one on the box its fine.

 

I believe their support forums is the best place for the search would be.