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The Dreamhost web hosting thread below was started by gcaprio on 2010-05-02 13:23:31:

Post Reply? Hi, I’m trying to secure my wordpress installation using an .htaccess file. However, I have custom permalink settings, which adds this to my root .htaccess file: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress As soon as I add anything surrounding the wp-login.php file: <Files wp-login.php> AuthType Digest AuthName “” AuthUserFile .htpasswd Require valid-user </Files> I get 404 errors. If I remove the first section, the password protection works, but none of my permalinks work. If I remove the second section, permalinks work, but not security. I can’t really see what I’m doing wrong here. Anyone have any idea? Thanks, Griffin

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