How To Protect a WordPress Site Using Basic Auth in Apache 2.4
erics, Posted August 25th, 2016 at 7:37:07am
Apache 2.4 changed the security configuration directives a bit.
Here is an example using basic auth:
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<Directory "/path/to/your/wordpress"> AllowOverride All Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI -Indexes Order allow,deny Allow from all <RequireAll> AuthType Basic AuthName "Protected Resource" AuthUserFile /path/to/your/.htpasswd Require valid-user </RequireAll> </Directory> |
What tripped me up for a while was that I still had the Require all granted directive inside the
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