Title: Authentication Required Message
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Authentication Required Message

 *  [emtiph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emtiph/)
 * (@emtiph)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-required-message/)
 * My website [http://kapoposangisland.com/](http://kapoposangisland.com/) has suddenly
   become inaccessible and gives me the message: The server [http://kapoposangisland.com](http://kapoposangisland.com):
   80 Authentication Required. Member site.
 * I’m not sure what’s gone wrong.. any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * I am unsure of the WordPress version but it is likely not the latest.

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 *  Moderator [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/)
 * (@fierevere)
 * 永子
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-required-message/#post-3854216)
 * check your .htaccess file
 *  Thread Starter [emtiph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emtiph/)
 * (@emtiph)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-required-message/#post-3854255)
 * what should I be looking for?
 * _[Moderator note: Stop bumping your thread]_
 *  [iknowshaun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iknowshaun/)
 * (@iknowshaun)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-required-message/#post-3854517)
 * Your going to be looking for something similar to this:
 * AuthType Basic
    AuthName “My Protected Area” AuthUserFile /path/to/.htpasswd 
   Require valid-user
 * Ultimately, if you don’t intend on password protecting your site in that way,
   just delete that section from your .htaccess file. That should get you back up
   and running. Hope this helps!
 *  Thread Starter [emtiph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emtiph/)
 * (@emtiph)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-required-message/#post-3854518)
 * iknowshaun, thank you so much. Seems pretty obvious in retrospect, somehow I 
   just didn’t suspect that issue.
 * moderator: Thought it might be acceptable to bump a thread once after no response/
   resolution 4 days later. My apologies.
 *  [iknowshaun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iknowshaun/)
 * (@iknowshaun)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-required-message/#post-3854519)
 * No problem, glad to help!

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## Tags

 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)
 * [inaccessible](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/inaccessible/)
 * [password](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password/)
 * [website](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/website/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [iknowshaun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iknowshaun/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-required-message/#post-3854519)
 * Status: not resolved

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