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<div align=justify>If you have Wordpress installed in the ''public_html'' folder of your account and want to password protect a folder, the protection is likely to fail due to the rewrite rules of the WordPress application.

The standard Wordpress .htaccess file looks like this:

 # BEGIN WordPress
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
 </IfModule>
 # END WordPress

To have password protection set properly, you need to edit the .htaccess file located within ''public_html'' folder and change the following line:

 ''RewriteRule . /index.php [L]''

to

 ''RewriteRule ./ /index.php [L]''

Once this rewrite rule is applied, the password protection should be working properly. </div>

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