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.htaccess troubles

Posted on March 21, 2014

Hi all, I am new I recently installed a droplet with Ubuntu and Wordpress as the application on it. I am now wanting to remove the .htaccess protection that is included by default. I simply do not know what to do.

I renamed .htaccess to .htaccess.old to (found in /var/www/) and it does not seem to make a difference (still getting asked for basic authentication prompt).

How do I remove this? is there any other location I should be looking at?

thanks in advance



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I have the same problem! Please, help!!

I’ve solved the problem with this link: <br> <br>https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/one-click-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-13-10-with-digitalocean <br> <br>Under the sub-theme “Removing the Additional Apache Password Prompt for Admin Areas” <br> <br>Follow the instructions and voilá, problem solved.

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