Password protected directories

[cPanelDavidG]

I tried this just last week and had to remove FP extensions, make the change and add FP back. I have never had an issue until cPanel felt the need to change this to restrict. This should be able to be turned off and if nothing else give a warning instead.

Ah, so this is an issue of FrontPage extensions being enabled and then you want to use functionality that modifies .htaccess?

[jdstallings]

Ah, so this is an issue of FrontPage extensions being enabled and then you want to use functionality that modifies .htaccess?

100% correct... It worked PERFECT in the past, then cPANEL removes the ability. We never had a single problem with it. A number of people has asked that this feature can be disabled in the Tweak options at the ROOT WHM level

[webstyler]

Same issue here on 8 server

In Cpanel Not possible to overwrite password for user on protected directory

Frontpage extension not installed

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[webstyler]

password --REDACTED-- not work

password --REDACTED--

????

[jdstallings]

password --ALSO REDACTED-- not work

password --ALSO REDACTED--

????

Did you really mean to post passwords here? You might want to edit that post.

[cPanelDavidG]

Same issue here on 8 server

In Cpanel Not possible to overwrite password for user on protected directory

Frontpage extension not installed

??

If FrontPage extensions are not installed, please update your cPanel/WHM. If that does not resolve the issue, please contact our technical analysts. They can be contacted at the URL at the bottom of this post.

[webstyler]

Did you really mean to post passwords here? You might want to edit that post.

is only a password

there isn't link to server, site, directory
there isn't username
..

what's risk ?

Is important to post password because the issue is ONLY for any char that is accepted by cpanel but not work when put on login

[ugaitzg]

Hi

I'm having the same problem.

We need to use Password protect directories, but it say's that FP is working, so we went to uninstall, but responded with the following error:

Starting uninstall, port: 80.
Error: The FrontPage Server Extensions are not installed on 'domain.com:80'.
Cleaning up .htaccess files...Done
Frontpage was uninstalled on the following domains: domain.com

any idea? how do you fix it?
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cPanel 11.25.0-R42404 - WHM 11.25.0 - X 3.9
CENTOS 5.4 i686 standard

[BOates]

The "detection" that FrontPage extensions are installed seems to be a simple search for the string "frontpage" within the .htaccess file itself. It is not case-sensitive. Any mention of the string "frontpage" in .htaccess will cause cPanel to believe you have it installed, even if it's in a commented line.

For example, this line from a client's Joomla installation was causing cPanel to erroneously assume FrontPage was installed:

("frontpage" word highlighted)

SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(frontpage|getright|getweb|go.?zilla|go-ahead-got-it|gotit|grabnet) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT

Removing the string "frontpage" from the .htaccess expression fixed this entirely.

In short, if you're getting an error claiming FrontPage extension are installed but they are actually not installed, search your .htaccess for "frontpage" and remove all instances of it. Keep in mind, though, you may need to "fix" some of your expressions/rules when you remove the string "frontpage". In my example, the adjacent OR operator (the "|") had to be removed as well to keep the expression syntactically correct.

NOTE: If you *do* have FrontPage extensions intentionally installed, you'll simply need to decide whether or not you want to use FrontPage extensions or cPanel's .htaccess password protected directories. Either/or, not both. This "fix" is only for people who do NOT have FrontPage extensions installed, but are experiencing the error despite this fact.

[me_suzy]

THIS WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM:

Make a .htaccess file (a text document, rename it as .htaccess). Then open it and add this few lines:


AuthName "capchas"
AuthUserFile "/home/your_user_name/.htpasswds/public_html/capchas/passwd"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user


Save it. Then put the .htaccess into folder "capchas" (capchas is the name of the folder you want to protect, but can be any folder as well)

(your_user_name - is your user name from database)

That's all.