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1. beoba
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have a subfolder on my server, named "what", which is passworded using .htaccess/.htpasswd. If I attempt to view this folder, I am instead forwarded to my Wordpress (2.0) installation, rather than being presented with a login box as expected.

   See what I mean: http://beoba.net/what

   If I remove WP's .htaccess, the folder is viewable, but WP permalinks become broken. What can I do to WP's .htaccess to make this folder act correctly, but still keep the permalinks? It is currently set to the WP defaults:

   --START WP'S .HTACCESS--
   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php
   </IfModule>

   # END WordPress
   --END WP'S .HTACCESS--

   I tried adding "RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URL} !^what" as well as "RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URL} !^/what" to the above file, but neither of them did anything whatsoever.

2. matt
   Troublemaker
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It shouldn't be touching that directory anyway, the second line says "if it's not a directory". Can you confirm that /what is a directory on your server? It doesn't seem so because usually /what would redirect to /what/.

3. beoba
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It most certainly is. Here are the (relevant) contents of the root directory for beoba.net:

   -rw-rw-r-- 1 beoba pg154859 235 2006-01-03 23:39 .htaccess
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 beoba pg154859 99 2005-02-19 00:10 index.php
   drwxrwxr-x 2 beoba pg154859 4096 2006-01-03 23:33 what
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 beoba pg154859 3 2005-12-31 02:39 wp -> wp2
   drwxr-xr-x 6 beoba pg154859 4096 2005-09-18 15:37 wp152
   drwxr-xr-x 5 beoba pg154859 4096 2005-12-31 02:52 wp2

   index.php has an include for "./wp/wp-blog-header.php"

4. beoba
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Something weird is that if I remove/rename the .htaccess file, log in to /what, and then readd/rename it back, I am then able to view the folder (apparently being logged in makes it viewable despite .htaccess being there).

5. choude
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello,

   I had the same problem and I fixed it by changing
   the line that reads:

   RewriteRule . /index.php

   to read:

   RewriteRule .+ /index.php

   My regex is a little rusty, but that seemed to do the trick for me.

   @Matt: The reason the subdirectory is effected by the .htaccess in the wordpress directory is that every subdirectory inherits its parent's .htaccess

6. beoba
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Still acting the same for me, current contents of .htaccess:

   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule .+ /index.php
   </IfModule>

   And the contents of /what's .htaccess (though even if these were wrong, it would give a 500 error rather than WP's current "takeover by default" action):

   AuthUserFile /home/beoba/beoba.net/what/.htpasswd
   AuthName "PASSWORDED"
   AuthType Basic

   <Limit GET POST>
   require valid-user
   </Limit>

   Contents of /what's .htpasswd:

   what:W.Mas09m6gatg

7. imperialman
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I believe this issue is solved; please see my post at the bottom of http://wordpress.org/support/topic/55033?replies=6

   I had the same issue, but I think everything works now!

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