Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Can you show us a screenshot of what you mean?
It looks loke your hosting did put extra security measures on your site.
Hey Dinno,
See your .htaccess file, there should be some code in which “.htpasswd” will be mentioned or somthing like following:
AuthUserFile /path_to_password_file/.htpasswd
AuthName “Secret Stuff”
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
If you want to remove this authentication then comment the found code by ‘#’.
And then check if it’s done.
Thread Starter
Dinno
(@dinno)
I am very new to WP, and know very little about any of this….but Im learning something new every day 🙂
So my htaccess file… I can see 2 different .htacces files…
Are you talking about the one in wp-admin?
this is what it says:
<Files install.php>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from “ip adr”
</Files>
if from my site, this is it:
# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
If I press Cansel in the popupwindow, it just disepears, but comes back when I open a new page
And my hosting says this is something in WP so they will not help.
Thank you for trying to help me 🙂
Check your “.htaccess” file at the root, means just parallel to wp-content and wp-admin.
See if there something mentioned about “.htpasswd” in your .htaccess.
If there something like that then either comment the code or remove the code for removing the authentication.
Thread Starter
Dinno
(@dinno)
Cant see “.htpasswd” any place in .htaccess
As I’m checking, at home page it does not ask about authentication. So please check for a directory or file like htpasswd or .htpasswd respectively
somewhere in your directory listing.
And also check the .htaccess file inside the wp-content or wp-content/themes/ ( if exists ) for something like .htpasswd.
If not found something then see if there is something like “RewriteRule ./ /index.php [L]”.
Thread Starter
Dinno
(@dinno)
I have been looking for .htpasswd in every .htaccess in most of my files, and can`t find any. But “RewriteRule.//index.php [L]” I found here:
# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
