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Apache / password protected directory question

 
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Marc Amos
post Aug 11 2008, 08:15 AM
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For a long time now, I've had a couple of protected directories on my website. Lets call them /protected/ and /secret/.

Ever since I created them, accessing each of them was quite easy; I would go to their respective URLs, be prompted for a username and password, I'd enter the credentials, and viola, I'm in.

About a month ago, after no particular server/configuration changes from me, accessing both directories has become a little bit 'harder', or simply more annoying.

Regardless of what browser I use, what my cookies are doing, etc., I'm now always, 100% of the time, asked for the credentials as expected, but when I enter them, I'm told they're wrong.

I enter them a second time, and then I'm let into the directories as desired.

This happens each and every time. I have to enter credentials twice, like clock-work. It's no biggy, but annoying and slightly embarrassing when I send a client to one of them (which I do, often).

Any thoughts?


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sypher
post Aug 11 2008, 12:21 PM
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Are u using htaccess to protect? Or something you have made yourself.


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post Aug 11 2008, 01:15 PM
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I don't know what method it employs, but it's a nice little button I click in Plesk. Using FTP to browser my directories, I don't see any particular .htaccess files (beyond the ones I manually inserted for other reasons).


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post Aug 12 2008, 02:44 AM
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I would suggest employing your own .htaccess and .htpasswd file then, if possible?


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post Aug 12 2008, 07:42 AM
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QUOTE (Sirkent @ Aug 12 2008, 03:44 AM) *
I would suggest employing your own .htaccess and .htpasswd file then, if possible?

Yeah, I had thought of that too. I may just do that ... but I wish the system Plesk offers would just work as expected. Ah well... thanks all!


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post Aug 12 2008, 06:14 PM
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Have you tried talking to your hosting company? Maybe they can help you out with it, if it's their system that created the password system.


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