Since I changed my hosting company and plan I've got a lot of problems with my htaccess file. I had a shared hosting and now I have VPS with another company. The first problem is that if I want to change something in Wordpress (header.php) I always get the message to change the file permissions. Even though with the permission 644 it worked fine on my old hosts it only works with 777 on my new host. So whenever I want to change anything in Wordpress I have to change it to 777 and then change it back to 644. The second problem are the redirects. Redirects like: Redirect 301 /forum/ http://forum.site.com are working fine but Redirects like: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^forum_id=6&thread_id=1$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://forum.site.com/new-member/2-admin-intro.html? [R=301,L] are not working anymore even though it worked fine on my old host. I have contacted my new host (Knownhost) and they said they couldn't help me with this. I have not experience with VPS hosting so it may be that I forgot to set something? Any ideas?