Title: Installation and authentication question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Installation and authentication question

 *  [droy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droy/)
 * (@droy)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-and-authentication-question/)
 * I am new to php and WordPress. First, love the product. Yippee for me.
 * Second, I am hosting a few site with uplinkearth and they facilitated the install
   of WordPress on a new site through their cpanel.
 * I completed the changed to have the index.php in the root of the www site and
   all looks fine. I love it.
 * Problem: As soon as I hit the Login link I am presented with a Windows Authenticiation
   Popup. Is this normal?, or has my hosting company done something odd in the install
   like protect some files or directories? Does the WordPress require authentication
   outside of the user/pwd that is stored in MySQL?
 * Curious …

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-and-authentication-question/#post-357134)
 * Did you have any previous .htaccess file in your root?
    WP generates it’s own
   and could be conflicting. Or your host’s default is to password protect the root
   which you will be able to undo somewhere. Contact your host.

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## Tags

 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)
 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installation-and-authentication-question/#post-357134)
 * Status: not resolved

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