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1. gigab
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello all,

   First post to wordpress, must say I love WP , although I have just realised I have a slight problem and have searched the forum but cannot find any solutions? Not sure what I have done wrong.

   Here goes:

   WP is installed in a sub directory EG wordpress
   in the Root directory I have html pages and another sub-directory which is password protected . eg http://www.abc.com/passwordprotected/

   Problem - Now WP is installed I can no longer access the pass protected folder from internet expolorer - keeps reverting to the wp 404 page.

   Additionllay the WP 404 page is overwriting my custom HTML 404 page in the root directy. ie in internet explorer I no longer get my html 404 page.

   Any Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

   Kind Regards
   Gigab

2. kansel01
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   In regards to your problem of the WP 404 showing up instead of accessing your password protected folder:

   I don't know if you ever solved this problem but your post came up first when I searched for answers to the same problem so I will post what I found here.

   This post has a good discussion of the problem. (The solution I used is at the bottom by 'junckster'.)

   I don't know if this solution could somehow be extended to help with your other problem where the WP 404 is overriding your custom 404 page.

   I do know that the WP 404 is usually a file called 404.php in your active theme's directory. You might try modifying this file to get what you want.

3. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Answer here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/89515?replies=6#post-454310

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