WordPress MU

I have another password protected folder on my website. I am positive the URL is correct, but when I try to access it I get a 404 error generated by WordPress. I think that it probably has something to do with the password system. I set the password up for it using an htaccess file, but it appears to be trying to generate a password through the wordpress files, but it never asks for me to enter one.

Any ideas on how to remedy this?

Leisa

Well wordpress is over at http://wordpress.org These are the forums for wordpress multiuser. There is a difference as we put a fair amount more into the htaccess file.

Are you sure you're in the right place?

Sorry, This is a wordpress MU install.

Leisa

if you get the 404, it's likely the url got rewritten by MU. add a line in your htaccess to disable mod_rewrite.

Thanks quenting

That is what I thought at first, but the URL is correct. I think that it is trying to run the password for that folder through the MU password system, seeing that the blog doesn't exist and then giving me the error message.

It is a password protected directory that has nothing to do with wordpress.

Leisa

it wouldn't go through MU if the URL wasn't rewritten. Did you try disabling mod_rewrite in that folder ?

check the access log in your apache server log if you can. Since it is a 404, there might be some useful info in the log.

How are your folders structured? WPMU in the HTTP document root? And the protected folder as a subfolder in WPMU?

Gee, I'd love to know how this got resolved.

I have WPMU in root with subdomains structure. I have (or want) a password-protected directory at public_html/personal/private

I set the protection for "private" in Cpanel.

I tried adding "rewriteengine off" to the .htaccess file (tried it in both "personal" and "private" actually since I wasn't sure).

But I still get 404 page. Nothing in the logs.

Any ideas?

I also tried this method:

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess3.shtml

But same result.