How to un-protect a folder that is protected?

[praisehim]

Good day,

I have Apache up and running smoothly, but one of the folders in my site is currently password protected. I cannot see and .htaccess or .htpsswd files located in the area of this folder.

Where would I go to see where these changes can be made please?

Awaiting your response.
Thanks

[kmap]

Hi

most likely you are not watching the files properly

Only .htaccess and .htpasswd are used to protect folder

Is it a dedicated hosting or shared hosting?

Have you looked for .htaccess in parent folder might be that causing problem

Regards

Alex

[ooyes]

did you check if the files are hidden?

[Trusted Writer]

Is it a dedicated hosting or shared hosting?


On dedicated hosting or your own server those files might be outside the public_html or var/www directory.

Ooyes may be right too and those files can be hidden but easy to find with a proper ftp program to get them shown or try by typing ls -a at your ftp/shell command line prompt

[apachehtaccess]

if you can ssh, then just do rm FOLDER/.htaccess
if ftp then upload a blank .htaccess to FOLDER/.htaccess