Comments on: How To: Fix WordPress 404 Errors on Password Protected Directories

By: Bill P.

Bill P. — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:56:01 +0000

Your fix worked perfectly on my WordPress site. I don’t know how you figure this stuff out but I’m glad you’re generous with your knowledge and time.

I wasted hours “trouble shooting” the problem until I looked for help and found your site. Very nice!

Thank you so much.

Bill P.

By: Gino

Gino — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:54:13 +0000

Glad to hear this article was able to help.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:45:52 +0000

I searched “password protected directories 404″ (no quotes) in Google. Your article is #1 and I am glad of it.

I have a fair number of sites floating’ around these days. Couldn’t figure out why the password protect feature wouldn’t work for some.

It was the WordPress in the root causing what I assumed was a 404.

Thank You for the enlightenment and the solution!

By: Mohammad Naji

Mohammad Naji — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:44:11 +0000

Thank you a lot

You really solved my problem!

By: Gino Gard

Gino Gard — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:18:08 +0000

Tuomas I am glad you were able to locate the solution you needed to fix your problem.

By: Tuomas Tuomitie

Tuomas Tuomitie — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:06:25 +0000

Thank you! A nice and simple solution to a problem that’s been bugging me for two nights now. It was surprisingly hard to come by solid information on the subject. You also helped me tidy up my .htaccess file and gained a new subscriber.

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By: Taggart

Taggart — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:14:55 +0000

Yep O This is Just what I needed … My WordPress was installed in the root /public_html folder so website.com/
but I also had a folder in there called members …that was password protected
by its own .htacces folder:

I then Found this Lovely Bit of info
and just copied: To my roots .htaccess folder i found it a bit strange because there is no such file as error.html …but what ever
IF IT WORKS IT IS RIGHT

ErrorDocument 401 ./error.html
ErrorDocument 403 ./error.html
# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

THANKS AGAIN !

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:21:09 +0000

Thanks. Just what I needed and had been looking for over a month.