Title: Background Optimization disabled with basic auth
Last modified: March 27, 2024

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# Background Optimization disabled with basic auth

 *  Resolved [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pma4life/)
 * (@pma4life)
 * [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-optimization-disabled-with-basic-auth/)
 * Hi there, I am attempting to use your plugin for the first time, and am excited
   about the potential. One issue I am running into is not being able to use Background
   Optimization when basic auth is enabled. I turned it off, and it worked fine.
   I am wondering if there is a setting or filter to allow background optimization
   when basic auth is enabled. Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Support [adamewww](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamewww/)
 * (@adamewww)
 * [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-optimization-disabled-with-basic-auth/#post-17533734)
 * Unless you can exclude your server’s IP from basic auth, there’s no way for the
   server to send itself a request. Unfortunately this means that anything that 
   has a background process won’t be able to run, including our background Optimization.

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-optimization-disabled-with-basic-auth/#post-17533734)
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