Comments on: Wordpress and .htaccess Password Protected Directories

By: thankful

thankful — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:52:31 +0000

Thank you sooooo much!

Option two worked super sweet for me

By: Sharon Stevens

Sharon Stevens — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:02:42 +0000

I also tried the second option, ErrorDocument 401 "Unauthorized access" & it works fine. Thanks & keep posting

By: conflict between RewriteRule and AuthType Basic - Hot Scripts Forums

conflict between RewriteRule and AuthType Basic - Hot Scripts Forums — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:29:27 +0000

[...] ErrorDocument 401 default to either of the 2 .htaccess I found the solution here : Wordpress and .htaccess Password Protected Directories Andrew Rollins [...]

By: vegger

vegger — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:05:16 +0000

Andrew
Thank you so, so much!

I had similiar problem with Joomla! password protected directory.
The solution is simple and brilliant and works in Joomla too.
Excellent work!

By: John@Lighting Ideas

John@Lighting Ideas — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:21:29 +0000

Thank you Andrew!

Like a few others mentioned above, problem was bothering me for quite awhile as well. Fixed and working as intended now.

Kudos!

By: Riquard

Riquard — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:34:13 +0000

tnx a million!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:35:13 +0000

I’m not running a wordpress site, but I added a rewriterule to the htaccess file of the parent directory of a site that proceeded to disable the login prompt on an htaccess-protected sub-directory. I just spent 4 hours messing with the htaccess and httpd.config files trying to figure out what went wrong… As it turned out the rewriterule was affecting the custom 401 document I had setup in the htaccess file (i.e. the parent .htaccess file looked like:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/~userdirectory(.*)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com%1 [L]

ErrorDocument 404 /~userdirectory/404.php
ErrorDocument 401 /~userdirectory/401.php
)

When the protected directory attempted to go to the 401 page the rewrite rule would skip the intervene, serving the 401.php page-content but apparently not the 401 header. Anyway, it’s not exactly the same thing as you discuss here, but your observation that the 401 header needed to be served in order to initiate authentication is what tipped me off to the problem.

Bottom line: You’re a saint!

By: NoiseR

NoiseR — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:58:38 +0000

THANKS – searching for fix like this for SO LONG! Almost gone crazy.

By: Muris

Muris — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:06:40 +0000

Thanks, this was GREAT!

By: Dalton

Dalton — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:41:03 +0000

Here’s another cheers, that problem was driving me crazy.