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×There may be nothing more annoying than the answer “I have no context on why you would want to do what you’ve asked to do but I’m still going to tell you to do it differently because I know better”
The reality is, Wordpress no longer requires default Admin username, making this completely unnecessary. Removing this, is VERY necessary for anybody who is passing this off to a client, or a company that wants to be able to use Wordpress in the way it was intended. The reason this exists in the first place to prevent an attacker from hijacking an installation soon after a droplet is created NOT to provide a longterm layer of security.
Finding the answer to this question is frustratingly annoying and slowly decaying my love for DigitalOcean.
What do I do when I do this, restart Apache and it still pops up when I try to login (and it accepts no password I’ve ever chosen or received)?
What’s the output of sudo grep -ri htpasswd /etc/apache2; cat /var/www/.htaccess?