Password Protected Directories and Textpattern 4
So I did end up having a few problems related to my upgrade to the latest version of Textpattern. One of the problems was that directories that I have password protected using .htaccess authentication had become inaccessible. If I tried to navigate to them I received a 404 error from Textpattern.
After a post of the Textpattern forums I received a response from wet who had run into the same problem. You can find his original post of the forums here, but here are the steps I took to fix the problem.
- Create a document on your server: Any name, any content, plain
<html></html>suffices. Call the file onerror.html. - Add these lines to the .htaccess found in the root of your Textpattern installation where “path_to_file” is the name of your subdirectory:
ErrorDocument 401 /[path_to_file]/onerror.html
ErrorDocument 403 /[path_to_file]/onerror.html
And that’s it. You’re done. Problem solved. Thanks wet!
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15. January 2006
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