Password Protecting diectory causing redirect loop

[kavos1332]

Hello cPanel Experts

I am server admin. There is a wordpress site which when password protect wp-admin/ on it, causes redirect loop. By default, wp-admin/ redirects user to wp-login.php, if not logged in, which is outside the wp-admin/ It seems password protection rule is somehow confilicting with rewrite rules There are some pages on the net regarding it but they dis not help

Please help ASAP

 

[kavos1332]

Nobody ere can help? Did you posted it at wrong place?

 

[hgrg]

maybe you should at least copy-paste the contents of the htaccess files.. you can expect ppl to solve your problem if you do not describe the problem in details..

 

[kavos1332]

Oh sorry! you're right. The bellow is contents of global .htaccess within public_html:

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

# END WordPress

And bellow is contents of .htaccess within wp-admin/ directory:

AuthUserFile "/home/paraf/.htpasswds/public_html/wp-admin/passwd"
AuthName "wp-admin"

<Files admin-ajax.php>
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Satisfy any 
</Files>
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

 

[kdean]

Have to ask, why are you passwording the wp-admin folder when wordpress already has it's own password system. That's probably your main problem right there.

 

[kavos1332]

Have to ask, why are you passwording the wp-admin folder when wordpress already has it's own password system. That's probably your main problem right there.

This is not my choise. This my client's decision and his ticket is open since Monday. There are a lot of people out there who want to have two login stages for extra security however it makes it mpre difficult for themselves to access. But we are not there to convince people what to do and not to do.

 

[LDHosting]

Try adding the following line to the top of .htaccess

ErrorDocument 401 default