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apache.htaccessauthentication.htpasswd
Sarah Dayan
Sarah Dayan

Reputation: 468

.htaccess keeps asking password at every request

I have a staging website which I protected with a simple .htaccess file.

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Please login to access this page"
AuthUserFile /real/path/to/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

My .htpasswd is the following:

username:hashedpassword

When I login from desktop, it works fine (I tried in Firefox, Chrome and Safari).

But when I login from my iPhone (Firefox, Safari), it keeps on asking for login information at every request. It doesn't redirect me if I just dismiss it, but it still keeps on popping every time I make a new request.

I don't know if this is important, but I'm doing in on a subdomain. My .htaccess and .htpasswd files are in the subdirectory that my subdomain is pointing to.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2001

Answers (1)

kojow7
kojow7

Reputation: 11384

I have just come across this problem. After trying to figure it out for the last couple of days I have found out the source of the problem:

This prompt gets triggered when using AuthType Basic and whenever a 401 message is sent from the website.

Is it possible that you had a 401 HTTP status code message being sent from the server at each request?

Upvotes: 1

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