Title: security settings conflicting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# security settings conflicting

 *  [Cayla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cayla/)
 * (@cayla)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-settings-conflicting/)
 * Okay…
    I moved my weblog from the root directory to /weblog. To avoid any kind
   of conflicts, I also copied wordpress to this new directory. The problem is, 
   the new directory is password protected. When you first click to open the page,
   the password prompt comes up like it should; however, once the page starts loading,
   it prompts AGAIN in order to load the .gif smilies I have installed with wordpress.
   If I re-enter my password, the smilies load, and if I don’t, it just shows up
   as an outline. Everything else loads fine regardless of whether I enter a second
   password or not. Now, when I changed the settings back so that the site was reading
   wordpress as still in the root directory with only the index in /weblog, I didn’t
   have this problem. What could be causing this security conflict? I’d like to 
   have wordpress in the same directory that it’s viewed in (/weblog), but I don’t
   want to enter the password twice.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-settings-conflicting/#post-122491)
 * This isn’t a security conflict. This is occurring because you have WordPress 
   in a password-protected directory. You’re luck you only have to enter your password
   twice.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/security-settings-conflicting/#post-122491)
 * Status: not resolved

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