Title: “basic authentication without a secure connection” message
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# “basic authentication without a secure connection” message

 *  [expeditionyacht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/expeditionyacht/)
 * (@expeditionyacht)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-authentication-without-a-secure-connection-message/)
 * When I go to my WP site (www.thebalboainn.com/cms) , I get a windows dialog box
   called ‘Connect to thebalboainn.com)’ saying:
 * “The server thebalboainn.com at WP-files requieres a username and password.
    
   Warning: this server is requesting that your username and password be sent in
   an unsecure manner (basic authenticationwithout a secure connection)”
 * Here I’m ased a user name and password.
 * When I click on ‘cancel’ I can access the site but obviously this is not how 
   it should be.
 * What is wrong?

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 *  Thread Starter [expeditionyacht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/expeditionyacht/)
 * (@expeditionyacht)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-authentication-without-a-secure-connection-message/#post-1346649)
 * Ups. I found my old post after all.
 * This fixed the problem:
 * Check for two files inside wp-content/uploads, called:
 * .htpasswd
    .htaccess
 * To solve the problem, delete or edit them. In my installation, these files were
   created by a plugin.

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 * Last reply from: [expeditionyacht](https://wordpress.org/support/users/expeditionyacht/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-authentication-without-a-secure-connection-message/#post-1346649)
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