No admin page!

OK, I talked to him a bit and here is the deal.

He has a store set up in the directory /store and the admin is in the directory /store/admin. They are really there, I checked on the server and they actually exist. One weird thing is that if you go to the store (www.4thelittleguy.com/store) it actually brings up the store, just like it is supposed to. Only if you go to the store admin page (www.4thelittleguy.com/store/admin) does it give you the WordPress 404. So for some reason WP thinks the store admin page belongs to it, but not the actual store.

WordPress is installed in the root directory.

WordPress .htaccess (found in root directory)

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>

deny from 68.166.120.50

osCommerce .htaccess (/store)

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.3 2003/06/12 10:53:20 hpdl Exp $
#
# This is used with Apache WebServers
#
# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to
# the AllowOverride configuration
#
# Example:
#
# <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
# AllowOverride Options
# </Directory>
#
# 'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the
# apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

# The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet
# Explorer browsers

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfDefine SSL>
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*"
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</IfDefine>
</IfModule>

# Fix certain PHP values
# (commented out by default to prevent errors occuring on certain
# servers)

#<IfModule mod_php4.c>
# php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
# php_value register_globals 1
#</IfModule>

osCommerce admin .htaccess (/store/admin)

# $Id: .htaccess,v 1.1 2003/06/20 00:18:30 hpdl Exp $
#
# This is used with Apache WebServers
#
# For this to work, you must include the parameter 'Options' to
# the AllowOverride configuration
#
# Example:
#
# <Directory "/usr/local/apache/htdocs">
# AllowOverride Options
# </Directory>
#
# 'All' with also work. (This configuration is in the
# apache/conf/httpd.conf file)

# The following makes adjustments to the SSL protocol for Internet
# Explorer browsers

<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfDefine SSL>
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*"
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0
</IfDefine>
</IfModule>

# Fix certain PHP values

#<IfModule mod_php4.c>
# php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
# php_value register_globals 1
#</IfModule>

AuthType Basic

AuthName "storeadmin"

AuthUserFile "/home/thelittl/.htpasswds/store/admin/passwd"

require valid-user

I actually had this happen just between two wordpress blogs… one in the root and one under a subdirectory… I’d be interested in how to solve this problem as well…

I used this fix for the exact same issue

http://textpattern.com/faq/173/password-protected-directories-with-htaccess