Question
Why does Wordpress (1 click install with DO template on ubuntu) keep asking for authentication?
- Posted on March 14, 2014
Asked by rogerquach1
I’m new to this but when i log onto my wp-admin dash board I get a pop up asking for me to login to my droplet via SSH for login details. Is there anyway to stop that from popping up?
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To remove the additional password prompt, you’ll need to log into your VPS instance through SSH as we demonstrated above. <br>Once logged in, you need to update the main Apache configuration file. Open it as root with your text editor: <br> <br>nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf <br>Inside, you need to find the section that deals with the “/wp-admin/” section. It should look like this: <br> <br><DirectoryMatch ^./wp-admin/> <br> AuthType Basic <br> AuthName “Please login to your droplet via SSH for login details.” <br> AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd <br> Require valid-user <br></DirectoryMatch> <br> <br>This entire section can be commented out by placing the “#” character before each line, like this: <br> <br>#<DirectoryMatch ^./wp-admin/> <br># AuthType Basic <br># AuthName “Please login to your droplet via SSH for login details.” <br># AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd <br># Require valid-user <br>#</DirectoryMatch> <br>Once this is complete, you can restart Apache for your new changes to take affect. <br> <br>service apache2 restart <br> <br>This should remove the additional password prompt from the administrative areas, which is usually okay since WordPress itself can handle authentication.
@zgaymalov <br> <br> <br>Thank you help alot.
Thank you very much, it worked. Here is more detailed steps: <br> <br>1. Locate a apache2.conf file by navigating to /etc/apache2 <br>2. Open file in text editor, just in case make a copy of original somewere if something will go wrong. <br>3. Locate: <br> <DirectoryMatch ^./wp-admin/> <br> AuthType Basic <br> AuthName “Please login to your droplet via SSH for login details.” <br> AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd <br> Require valid-user <br> </DirectoryMatch> <br>4.Delete: <br><DirectoryMatch ^./wp-admin/> <br> AuthType Basic <br> AuthName “Please login to your droplet via SSH for login details.” <br> AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd <br> Require valid-user <br></DirectoryMatch> <br>5. Save and update. <br> <br>I hope this will help.