tommylux

Been searching for the last hour and couldn’t find anything.. I had my wordpress installation in a dev mode before.. is this anything to go by?

Thanks

ALTER TABLE wp_login_redirects ADD COLUMN rul_url_logout LONGTEXT NOT NULL AFTER rul_url;

Yep it worked, however, even on a fresh WP installation it didn’t create this column.. Your missing it in your install code:

$sql = ‘CREATE TABLE ‘ . $rul_db_addresses . ‘ (
rul_type enum(\’user\’,\’role\’,\’level\’,\’all\’) NOT NULL,
rul_value varchar(255) NOT NULL default \’\’,
rul_url longtext NOT NULL,
rul_order int(2) NOT NULL default \’0\’,
UNIQUE KEY rul_type (rul_type,rul_value)
)’;

$wpdb->query($sql);

and the wp-admin htaccess file looks like this:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "tom"
AuthUserFile "mylocation/wp-admin/passwd"
require valid-user

<Files admin-ajax.php>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Satisfy any
</Files>

<Files install.css>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Satisfy any
</Files>

Would have been nice to put both files on the same line, ie:
<Files admin-ajax.php,install.css>
But this didn’t work.

The <Files install.css> works regardless it is inside wp-admin/css/

Thanks for your help.. 🙂

Still no luck..

This guy is having the same problem as me:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum92/4676.htm

and in another thread, a guy removes the:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
completely and replaces it with:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(content/view/.+|index\.php)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /drupal/$1 [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^content/view/.+$ /index.php [L]

on here: http://forum.modrewrite.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=9167

I have tried but no luck. I think it is the way the server handles protected directories.

Ed, Thanks for your reply; I am able to understand better having spent the entire day trying to get it to work!

When I password protect the wp-admin directory, when the server processes the root htaccess, something in the code is stopping it from being accessed and I get a 404 page. (password protecting the directory causes the 404)

When I comment out the following lines:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/wp-admin/.+$ #code1
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I am able to get the authentication box when I browse to /wp-admin

I think the htaccess is able to rewrite anything which doesn’t exist and provide a 404 page, as the server cannot access the wp-admin, i think it is treated as a non existent directory and processes as 404.

How do i edit the htaccess so that I never re-write the wp-admin folder?

My host’s CP only allows me to put in basic auth, I was hoping to change it to digest.. unknowingly if it is supported. My htaccess under wp-admin says:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Message to display"
AuthUserFile "/home/...etc..blabla.."
require valid-user

<Files admin-ajax.php>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Satisfy any
</Files>

Nicolas Kuttler suggested I always need admin-ajax.php and wp-admin/css/install.css (sometimes used on the front end) accessible… What is the syntax for adding that css file to the exception of the directory password?

Thanks Ed, Much appreciated. 🙂

Tom

Guys your right.. Why didn’t I see this! I was looking in the database and all sorts trying to botch it!

There is a real good community going on here, everyone seems more than happy to help..

Thank you.