Title: 404 error when plugin activated
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# 404 error when plugin activated

 *  Resolved [shainanz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shainanz/)
 * (@shainanz)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/)
 * Last Friday (24 May) I went to take a look at the site, and got a 404 error page(
   in multiple browsers):
 * > Not Found
   > The requested URL was not found on this server.
   > Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an 
   > ErrorDocument to handle the request.
 * The problem was fixed when I deactivated the Password Protected plugin, but it
   had been working fine up until then. Now, of course, though, the site is no longer
   password protected!
 * Any idea how to fix?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/password-protected/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/password-protected/)

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 *  [Ben Huson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/husobj/)
 * (@husobj)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790653)
 * What URL does your browser show when you get these 404 pages?
 *  Thread Starter [shainanz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shainanz/)
 * (@shainanz)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790696)
 * It comes up as 12.34.56.78/404.html. When I deactivate the plugin, it is 12.34.56.78/
   ~mysitename.
 *  [Ben Huson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/husobj/)
 * (@husobj)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790705)
 * So is your WordPress site in a subfolder?
    Or are you using a Multisite setup?
 *  Thread Starter [shainanz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shainanz/)
 * (@shainanz)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790740)
 * It’s a bit of a weird situation in that, until we go live, we are still hosting
   the site on the first developer’s server. We are no longer using this developer,
   and there has been another person in between the developer and myself working
   on the site. From what I understand, the first developer has quite a few other
   in development sites on her server. Does that help?
 *  [Ben Huson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/husobj/)
 * (@husobj)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790746)
 * It’s not possible to tell from that.
 * If you urgently need to password protect your development site you could try 
   installing the [Members](http://wordpress.org/plugins/members/) plugin which 
   has a setting that only logged in users can see the site. That would require 
   you to create users for each person you wanted to view the site who would need
   to login with username and password rather than just password.
 *  [aspirenetwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aspirenetwork/)
 * (@aspirenetwork)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790799)
 * Appreciate this very useful and easy plugin!
 * While using it, its the same issue I am facing but in multisite wordpress site.
   My domain is third level domain where this wordpress is intalled where I am using
   it e.g. (wp2).wp1.com It does show the enter password screen but once we enter
   the p/w it keeps waiting and give 404 error after a min. If I remove the activated
   password site works fine. What is the alternative to correct his issue? Thanks.
 *  [chedrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chedrick/)
 * (@chedrick)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790824)
 * I am receiving the same 404 error when this plugin is activated on all of the
   pages on my website.
 * My WordPress site is in a subfolder. What do I need to do to correct this problem?
 *  Thread Starter [shainanz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shainanz/)
 * (@shainanz)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790825)
 * I never ended up resolving the issue with this plugin. Instead I used the plugin
   Restricted Site Access.

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/password-protected/assets/icon-128x128.gif?rev=2824217)
 * [Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content](https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/password-protected/#faq)
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 * 8 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [shainanz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shainanz/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-plugin-activated/#post-3790825)
 * Status: resolved