Help!!!!

[MikeSouth]

OK I am trying to implement a members area for mikesouth.com which uses wordpress on the front end (not in the members aresa)

when I make the call to mikesouth.com/newmembers/index.htm everything works fine

UNTILL I add the .htaccess file Its been stripped to this

AuthUserFile /home/xxxsouth/public_html/mikesouth/cgi-bin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName Members
AuthType Basic


require valid-user


Ok pretty simple .htpasswd exists in that hardcoded directory and is readable

except wordpress is returning a 404 error, it doesnt display the dialogue login box that it should and it displays the 404 within wordpress (try it if you like) which I actually expect

what I dont understand is whyits not displaying the login

I can provide ssh for anyone willing to help

Thanks

[Toby]

Mike, try using just the following as your .htaccess file

AuthUserFile /home/xxxsouth/public_html/mikesouth/cgi-bin/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName "Members"
AuthType Basic
require valid-user

[MikeSouth]

same thing

I dont get this could it be something in the .htaccess for the parent (which is wordpress)

heres that one

# BEGIN WordPress

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


# END WordPress
Options All -Indexes

[Toby]

Could be, since WP uses a ton of mod rewrites all over the place.

.htaccess isn't one of my long suits, so I won't venture any more guesses.

[MikeSouth]

Originally Posted by Toby

Could be, since WP uses a ton of mod rewrites all over the place.

.htaccess isn't one of my long suits, so I won't venture any more guesses.

Thanks man...I get a feeling the way around this is to write a simple login.htm script instead of using the dialogue box from apache

[RawAlex]

without significant mods. wordpress is the culprit. Their current htaccess is pretty much an all consuming piece of you know what that takes all requests and processes them through a single bit of php.

Sites that use wordpress as "content" often have two complete version so wordpress running - an "outside" version running for the public pages, and then another complete version running in the members area (with it's own htaccess).

I wouldn't recommending putting a hack into wordpress to do the membership part, mostly because wordpress keeps updating and you will have to go back and hack it over and over again.