To remove the additional password prompt, you'll need to log into your VPS instance through SSH as we demonstrated above.
Once logged in, you need to update the main Apache configuration file. Open it as root with your text editor:
nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Inside, you need to find the section that deals with the "/wp-admin/" section. It should look like this:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Please login to your droplet via SSH for login details."
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
Require valid-user
This entire section can be commented out by placing the "#" character before each line, like this:
#
# AuthType Basic
# AuthName "Please login to your droplet via SSH for login details."
# AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/.htpasswd
# Require valid-user
#
Once this is complete, you can restart Apache for your new changes to take affect.
service apache2 restart
This should remove the additional password prompt from the administrative areas, which is usually okay since WordPress itself can handle authentication.
