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#25097 Can't password protect other directories

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 08 June 2016 17:20 CDT

Sunday, 08 May 2016 11:22 CDT

ericjay

Hello,

I cannot password protect other directories (not the administrator) within my public_html directory using cPanel since generating a new .htaccess file with Admin Tools.

This is the error I get:
Failed to open .htaccess for writing.

Do I need to adjust permissions for the new .htaccess file? If so what should they be? Currently the permissions for this file are: 644

Thank you for your help.

Monday, 09 May 2016 02:08 CDT

tampe125

Hello Eric,

please try to change the permissions for your .htaccess file to 664, in this way cPanel should be able to write in it.
However, I suspect that cPanel will overwrite current .htaccess file, so, after applying the password to your folder, please double check the contents of the file.
If cPanel replaced the contents created with the Htaccess Maker, don't worry. Simply copy them and paste inside the field Custom rules on top of the file inside the Htaccess, then recreate the file. That should do the trick.

Davide Tampellini

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Monday, 09 May 2016 07:02 CDT

ericjay

Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately changing the permissions on .htaccess did not allow me to write to it. I still receive the same error.

Monday, 09 May 2016 07:12 CDT

tampe125

What if you remove the current one, try to create it using cPanel and then copy such rules inside Htaccess Maker?

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Wednesday, 08 June 2016 17:20 CDT

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Edited by on 2016-06-08 17:20 CDT

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