Comments on: Update: AskApache Password Protect Plugin

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:56:30 +0000

@ Ivan. After having installed the plugin, I couldn’t use the Windows Live Writer any longer. All I got was a “403 forbidden” error. Then I played around with activating and deactivating the security modules in the plugin configuration. Now I know at least one thing for sure: The module “1022 BAD Content Type Denies any POST request with a content type other than application/x-www-form-urlencoded|multipart/form-data” blocks WLW. I deactivated it – now WLW has access to my blog again.

By: Brad Beckett

Brad Beckett — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:38:08 +0000

I figured it out… you have to FTP in and make sure all your .htaccess files in your mail /public_html/wp-admin/ is CHMOD 755 and /public_html/.htpasswda1 file is also CHMOD 755

Works for me!

By: highhopesgardens

highhopesgardens — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:46:01 +0000

I added the askapache password plugin to my 2.5.2 wordpress blog hosted on Yahoo (never found any warnings in install documentation on Wordpress against this) and now I cannot access my dashboard to remove the plugin (or do anything else on my blog). There are not any .htaccess files or password files that I can see in Yahoo file manager or filezilla. After I installed it and gave user name and password, the first login, it refuses my username and password and I’m locked out of my own blog. How can I fix this, short of blowing everything away and reinstalling Wordpress and my backups?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:01:20 +0000

I installed your password plugin, not cannot get into admin panel. Did all you suggested, but cannot bring up admin… what did I do wrong?
thanks
lauren

By: Andi

Andi — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:05:43 +0000

I get the error

Warning: Wrong parameter count for sha1() in /public_html/sitename/wp-content/plugins/askapache-password-protect.php on line 532

By: norvo

norvo — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:24:37 +0000

hi, great idea for a plugin. however, like a lot of the others i read in the comments, i also get a 404 page and can not access the wp-admin directory. nor does it prompt me for a username or password. any fix for this?

it would also be great if you could add something like this to the .htaccess file in the root of the blog directory (seperate from the other wordpress variables:

Options All -Indexes RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} /(wp-includes|wp-content)/.*\ HTTP/ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)yourdomain\.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F]

this would exclude people for browsing or direct calling the plugins or template stuff except for the blog software itself. just a thought :)

By: Will

Will — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:42:14 +0000

Same error here Mike and:

Warning: Wrong parameter count for sha1() in /wp-content/plugins/askapache-password-protect/askapache-password-protect.php on line 532

Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file /.htpasswdaa1 because Permission denied in /wp-content/plugins/askapache-password-protect/askapache-password-protect.php on line 413

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:23:23 +0000

Is it possible to use Windows Live Writer with your plugin?

By: ccpetersen

ccpetersen — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:31:08 +0000

I am using Wordpress 2.3.3, hosted on my site, which is hosted by hostgator. I am using PHP5. My server details are:

Apache/1.3.37 Server at site Port 80

Yet, when I go to activate this and set the config, it tells me that my server can’t handle the program. I get an error 500.

Can you advise?

By: newuser

newuser — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:12:15 +0000

I have uploaded the latest version with my updated wordpress install; my server is running php5, and tells me that it is apache, although when I do this:

/phpinfo.php

I get server api: CGI.

Anyway, This will not install, telling me my server’s not good enough… not much I can do about this, since I’m buying host time at hostgator…

I like the idea of this plugin and hope it can be made to work.

Oh, the error it gives me when I try to active is error 500.

Thx