How to un-protect a folder that is protected?

Discussion in 'Apache' started by praisehim, May 2, 2008.

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    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
     
    praisehim, May 2, 2008 IP
  2. kmap

    kmap Well-Known Member

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    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
     
    kmap, May 2, 2008 IP
  3. ooyes

    ooyes Peon

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    did you check if the files are hidden?
     
    ooyes, May 2, 2008 IP
  4. Trusted Writer

    Trusted Writer Banned

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    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
     
    Trusted Writer, May 4, 2008 IP
  5. apachehtaccess

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    if you can ssh, then just do rm FOLDER/.htaccess
    if ftp then upload a blank .htaccess to FOLDER/.htaccess
     
    apachehtaccess, May 9, 2008 IP