Title: not working: authentication loop
Last modified: July 7, 2019

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# not working: authentication loop

 *  [ashs_au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashs_au/)
 * (@ashs_au)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-authentication-loop/)
 * hi, I’ve configured the plugin & it’s just in an authentication loop: challenge,
   enter user/pass, challenge reappears. On both ‘just admin’ and ‘whole site’ settings.
 * Can you tell me whether the user & password is saved into the database (& where)
   or as a traditional .htpasswd file? (& where in relation to the site root) – 
   in the latter case, there might be permissions issues with my hosting that I 
   can resolve.
 * thanks, Ash
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fnot-working-authentication-loop%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [ashs_au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashs_au/)
 * (@ashs_au)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-authentication-loop/#post-11707162)
 * ah looks like the info is stored in the DB but still not working.
 *  Plugin Author [Sami Ahmed Siddiqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sasiddiqui/)
 * (@sasiddiqui)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-authentication-loop/#post-11708600)
 * Hi [@ashs_au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashs_au/)
 * Yes, credentials are stored in the DB. What’s your Hosting server? Maybe, there
   is some issue with Hosting.
 * Regards,
    Sami
 *  Thread Starter [ashs_au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashs_au/)
 * (@ashs_au)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-authentication-loop/#post-11708714)
 * yep: quadra hosting on an AU server. These guys used to have some default http
   auth in place to protect against brute forcing wp-admin – which has since gone.
 * But there might still be some global ‘Apache magic’ remaining on their hosting.
   I’ll contact their support & ask since the error log remains empty.
 * A
 *  Plugin Author [Sami Ahmed Siddiqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sasiddiqui/)
 * (@sasiddiqui)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-authentication-loop/#post-11709286)
 * [@ashs_au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashs_au/) Let me know once you
   get a reply from the Hosting server.
 *  [RudolfFiedler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolffiedler/)
 * (@rudolffiedler)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-authentication-loop/#post-12230561)
 * Hi,
    I installed http auth within an multisite, to pretect each multisite with
   different users and passwords. Settings are to protect whole page and activated.
   I can access the usual wordpress-login without http-auth. If I want to open frontend,
   http-auth occurs, but its not possible to enter the page, after sending passwort
   the http-login-form is back again. Does the plugin works in multisite?
 * thanks,
    Rudi
 *  Plugin Author [Sami Ahmed Siddiqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sasiddiqui/)
 * (@sasiddiqui)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-authentication-loop/#post-12231953)
 * [@rudolffiedler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolffiedler/) I hope that
   it works with multisite **BUT** never tested it with multisite.

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 * Last reply from: [Sami Ahmed Siddiqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sasiddiqui/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-working-authentication-loop/#post-12231953)
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