Title: [Plugin: AskApache Password Protect] What is “HTTP Digest Authentication”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: AskApache Password Protect] What is “HTTP Digest Authentication”

 *  [greencode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greencode/)
 * (@greencode)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-askapache-password-protect-what-is-http-digest-authentication/)
 * I’ve run the tests for this plugin and the only thing it seems to is “HTTP Digest
   Authentication” which comes back as “Bummer… you don’t have digest capabilities”
 * What does this mean and how can I resolve it so I can utilise the plugin.

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 *  [bamer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bamer/)
 * (@bamer)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-askapache-password-protect-what-is-http-digest-authentication/#post-1100889)
 * I’ve had the same problems too for weeks. no go. read all the faq’s and everything
   that I could find through google, but no go. I’m running WP 2.8 on a Linux hosted
   server at godaddy. why won’t this plugin work out of the box? I will keep searching
   for a feasible way to password-protect a blog without having to spend $$) . ..
 *  [hakre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hakre/)
 * (@hakre)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-askapache-password-protect-what-is-http-digest-authentication/#post-1100917)
 * You must ask that exact question to your servers administrator. He/She can enable
   HTTP Digest Authentication or your hoster does not want to enable it for you.
 * Go, ask your admin / hoster for the server configuration that plugin needs or
   choose the other type of authentication (basic). Normally basic should do the
   job on server where digest is not available.
 * Additionally a description on how to password protect any website on the apache
   webserver can be found in the apache documentation.

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