What does your .htaccess file say?
AuthUserFile /home/xxx/public_html/wp-admin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /home/xxx/public_html/wp-admin/
AuthType Basic
AuthName EnterPassword
require user xxx
BTW… that is the one I wrote, but I even used my hosting company’s tools to password protect, and I get the Error 404 with their .htaccess as well.
The same problem.
I have installed .htaccess into the folder wp-admin
When i’m trying to get to http://myblog.com/wp-admin – WP redirects me to 404 page.
The server is running CentOS + DirectAdmin. On all servers running DirectAdmin i got THE SAME!! problem. On other servers without DirectAdmin all is OK.
I tried to rebuild Apache (2.0 \ 2.2) all the same.
Please Help, i really need the directory wp-admin password protected.
problem solved
wp-admin .htaccess
ErrorDocument 401 default
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted Area"
AuthUserFile /home/admin/domains/*****.info/public_html/wp-admin/.htpasswd
require valid-user
main .htaccess in domain root
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
For that little extra security it’s probably worth keeping your .htpasswd file outside of the web accessible area. And like 4seoblogs, you shouldn’t need the reference to AuthGroupFile in your .htaccess file if you aren’t intending to use one, TimothyA.
4seoblogs, thank you SO much! I’ve been looking for a solution for how to use password protection on the wp-admin directory and your code above solved it. This should be added to the WordPress documentation.
Wes
(@wlefebvre)
The solution is to download your .htaccess file, open it using notepad or similar and add the following code before the WordPress entries, or modify the current ErrorDocument 401 line to the following:
ErrorDocument 401 default
Upload the file back to the server.
I wrote this blog post about it if you need more details.
Of course. But if any required field in the comments are missing, Apache ask user and password to the visitor. 🙁
PD: although if the visitor click cancel then WordPress gives it the error of the fields 🙂
