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March, 2016

Password protect directory or folder in wordpress installed directory

How to password protect a directory or files within WordPress installed directory? To do this, you need to create a file named 401.html and edit the .htaccess file in the password protected directory. Create the 401.html file in a separate directory (or in root directory) than the password protected directory. In this case I created More

access a folder/directory in wordpress

Suppose you have installed wordpress in root directory of your account. There is a folder/directory, say docs in the same (root) directory. You will not be able to access this folder like www.mysite.com/docs url. The wordpress will redirect to a 404 page instead. To override the wordpress rewrite rules, add the following line to .htaccess More