Title: Add Basic Auth Feature
Last modified: March 11, 2017

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# Add Basic Auth Feature

 *  [dfarin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfarin/)
 * (@dfarin)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-auth-feature/)
 * Hey Scott, can u possible add an Basic Auth feature to ur plugin. I cant get 
   it to work behind an basic auth with require any.
    Require IP works fine when
   i test it with my browser after i added my home ip. I have added local and some
   other server ips but i still get the msg “please whitlist IP XXXX” and if i start
   the crawling process it does nothing. With an other website on the same server,
   but without basic auth, ur plugin works fine, so there is only a problem with
   the basic auth. 🙂 Regards Dennis

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 *  [awaragi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awaragi/)
 * (@awaragi)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-auth-feature/#post-8919551)
 * +1
 * The whole point of using Simply Static is to have a secure version of the website.
   The original WP instance would be mostly with either white ip list or a basic
   auth (my case too).
 *  [simonuk1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonuk1/)
 * (@simonuk1)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-auth-feature/#post-8935700)
 * I had issue with .htaccess but sorted.
 * AuthUserFile /pathtohtaccessfile/.htpasswd
    AuthName “Protected Area” AuthType
   Basic require valid-user Order allow,deny Allow from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Allow from
   xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Satisfy any
 * My issue was that it need to be capitals for Satisfy, this allows to password
   protect your wordpress site and allow the simply static code to access the wordpress
   itself without requiring login.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-basic-auth-feature/#post-8935700)
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